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47 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
You can put this idea to your president, he might go for it. Or, he might try building a wall at the Canadian border.
Of course you guys do have the Mounties to protect you from any American, orange led invasion.
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7 is Henry Armetta (very good in the L&H film the Devil's Brother)
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First Spaceship on Venus
Next: a bad western movie
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It Happened at the World's Fair
Next: movie from the 1930s
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1 is Joseph Crehan
2 is Pierre Watkin
4 is Henry O'Neill
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3 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I don't mind airplane movies, and I'm a fan of Stewart, but I still thought The Spirit of St. Louis was an overlong bore that had serious script and structure issues. It seems to have clicked with a lot of people who saw it first as a kid, though.
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Totally agree. Found it very dull.
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55 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
I've seen 19 in full of the 25 narrative films. I've only seen large parts of Spirit of St. Louis, never the whole thing, so I'm not counting it.
I saw it and didn't care for it. I'm not really interested in planes/ the story though. Not really much of a Jimmy Stewart fan either. If you're into those kind of stories you might like the whole film.
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Conquest - This fantasy film from Lucio Fulci is a Spanish- Italian- Mexican co-production. This is one of the fantasy films aping off the success of Conan the Barbarian (one of my favorite films). Unfortunately this one doesn't have much of the charm of that film. Jorge Rivero faces off against a witch and werewolf/ zombie men in an ancient fantasy world. While the special effects to this one are very dated I did like some of the cinematography, especially a beautiful shot of the sunrise emerging in a cloudy, misty environment. If you are into cheesy B films, this one is worth a look.
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Dyanne Thorne
Janet Agren
Linda Lovelace
Francesca Ciardi
Gabriella Boccardo
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On 4/4/2017 at 11:24 AM, cinemaspeak59 said:
Madeleine and her friends, Elisabeth and Catherine, don't care much for politics. Paul defines himself by what he stands for. Wide-eyed and restless, he spray paints anti-Vietnam War messages on cars and buildings. And, together with his friend Robert, is not above asking a woman having coffee if he can reach across her table for some sugar, just to have a peek at her breasts, a sophomoric move if there ever was one. Paul's liberalism doesn't extend to this music; he likes classical, and never heard of fellow political ally Bob Dylan.
Paul's opinions on popular music and classical music were probably influenced by Theodor Adorno- a left wing philosopher popular among the left wing students of the time. He thought that popular music about protest and uprising "made the unbearable bearable." Paul says something similar in this movie and says he prefers Bach's Concerto in D.
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On 1/12/2019 at 3:25 PM, mr6666 said:
Sun., 1-13 for TCM Imports........
(times ET)
2:00 AM
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her ( 1967)
The story of a housewife who must work the streets to earn an extra living--and who becomes the starting point for a larger socio-political essay.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Marina Vlady , Anny Duperey , Roger Montsoret .
BW- 87 mins, Letterbox Format
" Godard wrote that "I wanted to include everything: sports, politics, even groceries. Everything should be put in a film".[1] Godard himself narrates the film in a whispered voice-over that discusses his fears to the audience about the contemporary world, ....."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_or_Three_Things_I_Know_About_Her
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Mon., 1-14. for Stewart & Mitchum.....
8:00 PM
James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America ( 2017)
"(Gregory Munro) would make a documentary playing the two actors' personalities off of each other as an examination of America. ......
Stewart represents the nave, kind and gentle America that succeeded in the face of adversity, helped others whenever it could and presented something to emulate. Mitchum represents the "bad boy" side of America, still kind and generous but the kind of guy you want with you when you want to have a good time or maybe do something a little shady. ...."
Dir: Gregory Monro
BW- 57 mins, CC,
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is a very good film. Its use of prostitution in middle class Paris to tell about exploitation, strife and war in Vietnam and throughout the world is very good. The film is relevant more today than ever
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3 hours ago, EricJ said:
I didn't mean YOU-you, I meant the rhetoric reader. Most people picked that up.
We've actually had very few foreign-language Picture nominees, and those were considered to be the good ones of the indies--It's just the glut of indies itself that's been considered the bane of the Post-'04 Oscars, and yes, isolating it down to just "Americans don't like non-American films" did come off a bit too snobby in adopting that as what looked like one oversimplified explanation.
That is literally the reason foreign films do not do well in the US though. Most people simply do not like subtitles.
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And the Ship Sails On - In the days before WWI, a funeral is being held for a respectable female opera singer. The boat is taking all the funeral mourners to her home island and of course the mourners are made up of kooks and oddballs in typical Fellini fashion. This isn't Fellini's greatest film but I thought it was very funny and has a touching part where refugees land on the ship and are forced to watch the rich eating through the window. A touching scene that certainly wouldn't be out of place today. If you like Fellini's light and dramatic side, I suggest giving this one a view.
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2 minutes ago, Thenryb said:
I thought Douglas was the translator of the Baudelaire poem into English.
https://archive.org/stream/collectedpoemsof00dougrich/collectedpoemsof00dougrich_djvu.txt
This is what the iMDB says.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039589/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
The poem read by Inspector Temple (Charles Coburn) to Julian Wilde (Cedric Hardwicke) is from "Harmonic du Soir" by Lord Alfred Douglas, not Beaudelaire, despite the fact that he is holding a copy of "Flowers of Evil" (Fleurs du mal), a collection of Beaudelaire's poetry.-
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1 hour ago, Vautrin said:
Charley's really getting whacked, movie-wise. I presume that they were using actual translations
from Baudelaire, but who knows. There is a dark, somewhat purple prose or rather poetry side
to his work, but that is hardly the only thing in his poetry. There was an hilarious episode of
the 1960s version of Dragnet where some high school kid reads Baudelaire and other French poets
of that time and takes them too literally and goes out and commits crimes. Of course we learn
that Sgt. Friday knows quite a bit about Baudelaire, though Gannon seems clueless.
It wasn't actually Baudelaire. The poem Inspector Temple reads is from "Harmonic du Soir" by Lord Alfred Douglas, not Beaudelaire.
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I've seen Lured a long time ago but have rewatched it today. Lucy is good in this one (as always) and Karloff gives the film an eery feel. The story and cinematography remind me a lot of Hitchcock's the Lodger which may be intentional. The London sets are very well done too. I thought some of the plot twist was a bit meh.... too but overall an enjoyable film.
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McCarthy, Danny
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49 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Yes, that one was the strongest. I also loved the first one with the singing cowboy, but it was much sillier. I currently have The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as my #6 choice of my Top Ten favorites of last year.
Yeah, I also liked the first one. I thought it was funny when Scruggs hit the table with his shoe causing the one guy to fire on himself.
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2 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
Me too, I'd love to see it, I usually like the Coen brothers. (Hope it's not just available on Neflix, I don't get Netflix.)
2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:I liked it, but I don't think it will get nominated. I haven't seen much mention of it on the awards thread thus far, and like most Coen brothers movies, it seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it kind of film.
I just saw it on Netflix. I have to say that I love it! I won't spoil anything but my favorite story was the fifth one with the woman and the dog. Very touching and sad. The film had really great cinematography too.
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31 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
So what will the likely Best Picture nominees be? And how will the PC/issue-driven campaigns pan out?
- BlacKkKlansman
- Green Book
- Roma
- A Star Is Born
All of the above seem like shoo-ins for nominations. The first one deals with race, the second with race & sexuality, the third (like MissW pointed out) isn't really political, but the subject matter can be see as such given the border conflict in the news all year and continuing on. The last film isn't really political, either, as far as I know.
- Black Panther
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Crazy Rich Asians
- The Favourite
- First Reformed
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Vice
All of the above are possible nominees. Black Panther deals with race as a secondary, or even tertiary, concern; If Beale Street Could Talk heavily deals with race; Crazy Rich Asians doesn't deal with racism in its story much, but the Asian-cast-as-milestone has an identity-politics push; The Favourite and Bohemian Rhapsody deal, however heavily of sparingly, with LGBT characters; Firs Reformed looks at religious faith and environmental causes; and Vice is, well, Vice.
I've seen Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Crazy Rich Asians, First Reformed, and Roma, and as such can speak on these more than the others.
What about the Ballad of Buster Scruggs. I've heard good things about that one and need to get around to seeing it.
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6 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Is someone I've never heard of 'underrated' by default?
(Oh, and I'm not playing the 'never heard of them' game here; I really don't know of any film any of these guys directed).
I recognize Godfrey Ho because he made a bunch of cheesy (but fun) Hong Kong ninja films. Very good director.
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My favorite is probably Lost Weekend. My favorite scene is where he is at the symphony and dreaming of dancing alcohol.
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20 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
They had the Asian focus back about 10 years ago, and i also know they had the immigrant experience around 2012 or 2013, so maybe there will be more nationalities in the future.
They did one for Native Americans too a few years ago, I think. Unfortunately they didn't show the cheesy Lone Ranger movie with Michael Horse.
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