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On 6/29/2020 at 1:47 PM, LsDoorMat said:
Madonna did some acting so I guess she qualifies. The worst thing she ever did was "Body Of Evidence" (1992). I howled with laughter all the way through it. But then she did get the lead in Evita after that, so it didn't turn out to be the nail in the coffin of her acting career that everybody thought it would be at the time.
Yes Body of Evidence is quite terrible...
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14 hours ago, Peebs said:
I agree. De Niro was also funny in Midnight Run. The Adventures if Rocky and Bullwinkle is certainly one of his worst, though.
Wait till you see Dirty Grandpa,real crap,De Niro is making(already finished ?)a sequel to this super turkeyI have seen 95 films by De Niro,In the last 25 years he has made more than 60 films,maybe 5 were ok, the money is too good when you produce and act i presume,his career is very disappointing from my point of view.Ithink he paid himself 20 million$ for each sequel of Meet the Parents….
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59 minutes ago, Hoganman1 said:
Well it didn't take long for this to go off the rails. It appears all forms of social media eventually turn into arguments. That includes even ones as benign as this one. I think I'll take a little break from reading and posting here. I watch TCM to get away from all that is happening in the US and the world today. If I want to hear people arguing, I can always go to cable news.
Use the ignore option it is useful to avoid problematic posters...
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I like LFS ,i watched it a few times before.I will be the only one here to say this..Rita Hayworth looks extraordinary in the film,the blonde short hair,enhance her beauty,she is gorgeous.. my favorite Rita,as for Welles' Irish accent well,when i close my eyes he sounds like Peter Lorre sometimes,Lorre was German as you know, i will try again to see Errol Flynn at the bar(supposed to be there),no luck ,i will make a serious attempt tomorrow...
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MADAME HYDE by Serge Bozon 2017 aka Mrs Hyde Isabelle Huppert Romain Duris.Very good black-fantady comedy drama !!!! A demure, timid 'physics teacher named Géquil is mocked by her students and collegues.then something happened , changing her forver. Huppert is excellente as usual, 7.75/10
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1 hour ago, SansFin said:
I bow to his personal assessment. I will note that IMDb.com rates: Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971) as 5.4 stars and rates: The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970) as 3.4 stars.
It is obvious that he was going through a patch of bad movies at that time.
I have not watched: Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971). I have read a synopsis and several reviews and find that I have no desire to watch it.
Mason was unsecure,accepting almost all the jobs offered starting int he mid 60's , his divorce with Pamela cost him an awful lot and she was not nice with him, she accused him of cheating while it was a know fact in Hollywood-she was always 'available',movie-wise it got better in the mid 70's, but he was not unique or the worst,i have read that Christopher Walken has NEVER turned down a role… i'am happy to not complete him,he does terrible junk
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On 6/23/2020 at 2:43 AM, SansFin said:
Here is that I wrote on June 16, 2017 of the movie which I feel must be James Mason's worst:
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
I love James Mason very much and I find Burgess Meredith to be quite delightful in small doses.
I am very sad to say that my fondness for them will be forever more tainted by the existence of this movie.
I was required to watch it in its entirety because I lost a bet. I did not consider it an onerous consequence because of the aforementioned actors and Jeff Bridges, Broderick Crawford and Jack MacGowran. I believed I would find it interesting also because movies written by their directors is one of my weaknesses.
I fulfilled my obligation by facing the screen with my eyes open for the entire one-hundred minutes. I believe that it can not be reasonable to blame me for not knowing now the plot, character development or any other critical aspect of the movie. My brain is simply incapable of processing befuddled dreck.
There is a thing about a talking statue of Buddha interfering in world politics and a thing about people running madly in an attempt to escape bubblegum pop and a thing about James Mason shooting a person with a speargun. That is all of the movie which entered my consciousness.
I have read now a synopsis of the movie. I believe it may have been a correct synopsis but I simply do not know because I was incapable of discerning the plot while watching it.
There are many movies which are so very bad that they are good. This is not one of them.
I truly hope that it was his worst movie because I dread the thought that there might be one lurking out there which makes this look as if it is a masterpiece.
James Mason said to Johnny Carson on the Tonight show his worst film was one Titled 'Kill' made in 1971 with Stephen Boyd,jean Seberg ,it was directed by Romain Gary,a famous writer(married then to Seberg).I'am a Mason completist, and Mason was right,it was his worst,i have seen the Tonight show then..and the film...
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25 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
I think BOB WELCH left that band just before that record.
yes he did & they helped him to get a solo record deal
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4 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
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the first (1975 I think)with the then new line up, one of their 2 best records, of course the Fleetwood Mac line up of this lp was very different music wise the the late 60's with Peter Green their transition was done with Bob Welch for some records in the 70's
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DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES AKA RIFIFI 1955 by Jules Dassin with Jean Servais,Carl Mohner, Magali Noel.Excellent heist film,Servais is great,Jules Dassin gave himself a role as one of the thieves & the lover of Magali Noel,i would have done the same...8.5/10
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i would like to see Jail Bait 1954 by Ed Wood on Noir Alley,Wood's attempt at Film Noir must be hysterical...
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6 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
I love that scene too.
I adore HORROR OF DRACULA.
The majority opinion seems to be that Bela Lugosi is the ultimate Dracula, and while Lugosi certainly made for a creepy vampire, I must say Christopher Lee is more than a match for him.
I love Peter Cushing as Dr. Van Helsing. The final battle between him and Lee's Dracula is exciting.
What I like about the Hammer version is the fantastic score by the great James Bernard,he started doing the scores for Hammer 1 or 2 years before Dracula,but he really define his style with Dracula.Bernard uses drums,snares & cymbals, with speed metal violins,he is an heavy metal classical composer a bit like Wagner I would say even if my knowledge of Wagner's music is limited.Bernard made almost all the important Hammer movies-at least 20--sometime his score is scarier than what you see...I discovered his music as a teenager,i was watching a lot of Hammer movies on tv and noticed his powerful style,Bernard's music is an integral part of every film he scored ,The Dracula theme is noticeable since he scored several of the films.
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LAUTREC 1998 FRANCE 125 MINUTES by Roger Planchon with Régis Royer,Anémone, Claude Rich,Elsa Zylberstein.Anémone was nominated for best supporting actress at the Césars,2 wins for sets & costumes.Very good film about Henri de Toulouse Lautrec the great painter.Quite different than the 1952 Huston film,the brief scenes in the houses of pleasures are short but worth the Césars prizes just for these sequences.Also something I have never seen on film before or heard of, you see a couple of scenes where each waiter carry a huge cue card about 5 cards or 5 waiters makes the phrase 'Dancers must not forget to wear their 'trousers',funny.Probably in the early days of French Can Can.Good acting.8/10
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DARK CITY 1950 by William Dieterle.
Finally watched it, a good crime-noir movie with a great cast: Charlton Heston in his film debut-leading role no less(he is excellent) Lizabeth Scott,Dean Jagger,Viveca Lindfors,Jack Webb ,Henry Morgan( not their Dragnet roles!) others.Whoever decided on Heston made a good bet (Wallis?) Also even if I have seen many of her movies I never thought Scott was really attractive-for me- but in this movie she wears a couple of times a strapless tight fitting dress to her advantage also I was surprised to hear the word 'psychopath' in a 1950 movie.7.5/10
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L.' OEIL DU MALIN 1962 by Claude Chabrol with Jacques Charrier Stephane Audran very good early film by Chabrol starting a path where he will become a master.Story about blackmail & infidelity.I like Audran very much I found her extremely attractive,a sultry French woman,a super cook,a cordon bleu.She died 2 years ago, the actor Charrier was married to Bardot then-not for long ,Audran lost her husband Jean Louis Trintignant to the same Bardot in 1956.Restored print . 7.5/10
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On 6/7/2020 at 5:52 AM, Bogie56 said:
Monday, June 8
7:30 a.m. Gold For the Caesars (1964). Jeffrey Hunter as a gladiator.
I got curious 'Jeffrey Hunter as a gladiator.' he was not... he was an architect like George Constanza... Ron Rendell again as a Roman..he is the Roman Lugosi
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On 6/7/2020 at 10:44 PM, kingrat said:
. And Massimo Girotti in something very unlike the Antonioni film he is best known for.
I have seen many years ago an Italian version of Spartacus with Massimo in the title role,early 50's before Kirk Douglas,he probably got the idea there as Douglas was in Europe around the time it was made... ok I got it 1953 released as Sins of Rome in the UK & USA a shorter version-35 minutes less,titled Spartacus everywhere else.
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LES AVENTURES D'ARSENE LUPIN 1957 by JACQUES BECKER with Robert Lamoureux Liselotte Pulver. Very good movie on the famous thief,nice colors,great acting 7.5/10
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9 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Night Club Scandal (1937) with John Barrymore
In Caliente (1935) with Dolores Del Rio
***The Senator Was Indiscreet*** (1947). With William Powell. I Let's hope that it stays on the schedule and plays in Canada too !
My personal highlights too,i have the same feeling for the Powell movie I have never seen it and I hope there is no rights issue in Canada,i bet the McQueen movie 'An Enemy of the people will be replaced,it did not play in Canada the last time it played on TCM.But I have it on a dvd somewhere...I will watch 2 Raft movies from 1952-i complete more than 50 actors-actresses so....I wished they would have played 'Term of Trial' on the Laurence Olivier day..his performance is so riveting,the film is not overplayed , it is too bad...one of his best work.
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HELL'S HOUSE 1932 by Howard Higgin Bette Davis Pat O'Brien, early film by Bette Davis not for Warner or Universal,story about young kid going to reform school despite being innocent. 5.5/10
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SLAUGHTER ON 10TH AVENUE 1957 by Arnold Laven with Richard Egan, Walter Matthau,Jan Sterling ,Dan Duryea, Julie Adams and a white haired Charles McGraw. Crimes & murder on the NYC waterfront.Very good film ,Dureya is excellent as usual, Adams is wasted. 8/10. From Universal.
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LE SOLEIL DES VOYOUS 1967 by Jean Delannoy with Jean Gabin Robert Stack.Bank robbery story,average but Gabin is always good to watch,Stack was fluent in French so he was not dubbed. 6.5/10
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5 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
I had the good fortune to be dining in a restaurant one table over from Claudia Cardinale in Montreal about 1983. The most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I think she may have been there to pick up a lifetime achievement award at the festival. Around that same time in Montreal I saw a film shoot of Once Upon a Time In America. I wondered later if he might have been at the table with his back to me.
A close second would be Jacqueline Bisset who I saw in Mexico about six months later. That was just for a minute or so.
Lucky you,2 of my favorites, beautywise,i have no interest in the current leading ladies not a question of age simply they do not 'dégage' as the 'old' leading ladies imo.
As for your diner near CC she was filming up north and in Montreal with Lino Ventura in one of his last films,she came to the festival I think 5-6 years later for a movie she was in and directed by her boyfriend the movie got several prizes.I did not try to see her as i sweared to myself not to attend any Italian female movie star since Sophia Loren made or actually planned an appearance in a major big store and it got cancelled because of almost 'riot conditions'...My sister met Robert De Niro during the same filming you mention,she said he was a gentleman and respectful-my sister had incredible looks-and he did not play the usual casanova stuff,they shared a few drinks that's all.I did not had such a luck with a movie star,in the music business I have met rock stars galore,but in my days the 2 biz were not together very much.the closest I can remember is seeing Peter Boyle while I was going out from the Roxy in LA!!! The most striking woman or celebrity I have ever seen was Bianca Jagger in 1976 I was 20 years old,my summer job was working at the Olympics, Jagger showed up with his wife in tow -he had a pass but no tickets- I kept my cool as I knew he was in town the day before via the paper a big sports fan ,the Stones were my favorite band I took my Rolling Stones very seriously travelling to shows etc I took care of him for a whole week,Bianca is from Nicaragua was previously involved with Michael Caine at 19 she was 30 then.Believe me her beauty was incredible !Jagger was a classy guy,lots of fun ,I remember at the end of the 1st day-we had all a ridiculous outfit- he looked and found me to thank me for the seats and he came back everyday ...with a different woman and they were not from Montreal all very nice and well dressed !,He even showed up with Ahmet Ertegun the very important boss at Atlantic, since I knew who he was we had a great conversation..As for Bianca,the marriage then was on a ventilator but he never got a better woman intellectually and physically.
About Cartouche I will have to look at it again because Belmondo did a jaw dropping thing in the film he was fighting 2 guys from behind I think ! I have never seen anything like this-you would expect this in a cartoon, anyway,great film,sorry it is a bit long...all the best keep on posting
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CARTOUCHE 1962 by Phillipe De Broca with Jean Paul Belmondo Jean Rochefort a breathtaking Claudia Cardinale and an excellent cast.Set in 18th century France, another exciting collaboration with Belmondo & De Broca,excellent snappy dialogie,great sets,great camera work,Belmondo is doing all the stunts...the best action adventure film since.....Robin Hood ! 8.5 /10
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I watched it again 2 weeks ago,a great film,it should play on TCM,i do not remember if it played here but it would make sense.