Sukhov Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 So bad, it's good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsan404 Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 The derby scene from They Shoot Horses, Don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsan404 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 The emotional and beautifully shot locusts scene in Days of Heaven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Happy Birthday to my favorite screen guy, Fred Astaire, born May 10th, 1899! One of my very favorite dance scenes (apart from the Asian makeup, of course) from the catalog of his films is the "Limehouse Blues" number from ZIEGFIELD FOLLIES, with lovely Lucille Bremer. Not a very good print; WB has removed all the good ones from YouTube.😞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGrandMaster Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubra Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 "We're all busy little bees, full of stings making honey, day and night, aren't we honey?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 Not really a favorite, but this scene from John Cassavetes' directorial debut, Shadows (1959), illustrates with some irony my own feelings about his movies. If I understand his approach, he sought to capture on film those ethereal moments that happen in live theater where everything comes together and a certain magic can be sensed. He didn't mind shooting miles of footage then spending days or weeks or months looking for those moments in film. I tend to prefer movies where they knew what they were trying to do before the film rolled. Improv and film just don't seem compatible to me, but Cassavetes' certainly has his admirers. And his moments. The full movie is available in YT and it is a good looking piece of film, with lots of late 50s NYC locales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syntax Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Robert Mitchum sitting on a stump outside Jillian Gish's house at night singing "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms". Scaaaary. From "Night of the Hunter". 1955 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Syntax said: Robert Mitchum sitting on a stump outside Jillian Gish's house at night singing "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms". Scaaaary. From "Night of the Hunter". 1955 Yes. In my version, she's gonna pop his sorry butt, then sit down and sing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 Shane has a couple of wince-inducing scenes that are necessary to set up the payoff. This is one of them. Although, Tory does get in a nice little piece of trash talk before the lights go out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 On 2/5/2021 at 5:29 PM, LuckyDan said: Yes. In my version, she's gonna pop his sorry butt, then sit down and sing. Mitchum has a great voice so in my version they sing a duet and when Bob gets really into it and is distracted,,,,, she pops him! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 From The Red Violin (1998) the story of an instrument created in 1681 and its passage through time in the hands of various owners across the world up to the present day. This sequence features as Kaspar Weiss the violinist Christoph Koncz, then age 9, who is today principal violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 Gosh O Mighty this is good. Make sure your volume is set properly for maximum effect. Not a spoiler but if you don't know this one, watch it tonight. This is very much a night movie somehow. With a crackling fire if you can manage one. At least that's how I first saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 From All that Jazz, Ann Reinking and Erzsebét Földi dance to the Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager song,"Everything Old is New Again." Ann died a matter of months ago. I cannot find any information on what has become of Erzsebét, but I hope she's well. She could not have been more charming here. Edit: Erzsebét later became a member of the Twyla Tharp company (I may have seen her when they came through town) then later left show business. She now goes by "Liz" and works as a licensed massage therapist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted June 24 Author Share Posted June 24 Jeff Beck is 78 today. Here he is at 22 in his feature film debut, going all Pete Townshend on his guitar in Blow Up. The Who was the original band in mind for this scene but their manager Kit Lambert asked the Yardbirds manager Simon Napier-Bell (who is the source of this legend) for advice on negotiations with director Michelangelo Antonioni.. Napier-Bell convinced Lambert to hold out for more money and final edit. Well, guess what happened next. I love how the audience is bored stiff by the music but go to fist fighting over a broken off guitar neck. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGrandMaster Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted July 2 Author Share Posted July 2 From Unforgiven. English Bob been talking about the queen again ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted July 5 Author Share Posted July 5 (Ok so it's not Bebe swimming but that's not the point.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 Gene Hackman again, this time from 1971 in The French Connection. William Friedkin asked Howard Hawks what he thought of his movies. Hawks said they were lousy and told him he should make a good chase. Photographer Owen Roizman mounted a camera to a front bumper and set it to 18 frames per second to speed things up. Gene is driving a 1971 Pontiac Le Mans through Bensonhurst. It was shot without a permit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted September 26 Author Share Posted September 26 "Shall we dance?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted September 29 Author Share Posted September 29 The opening sequence of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, featuring photography by Darius Khondji, and Sidney Bechet's 1952 instrumental "Si tu vois me mère" ("If You See my Mother"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 Alex clears his gulliver of Ludovico training in A Clockwork Orange. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted October 19 Author Share Posted October 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted November 29 Author Share Posted November 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts