pturman Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Jake's home movies (& my favorite montage of all time, incidentally) Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 From Fried Green Tomatoes: Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 From Shane (1953) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5HKmzx7Rxk&feature=related Link to post Share on other sites
pturman Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 I live in Texas & this movie soooo captures the Texan mentality. 55 years later & nothing has changed. Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Thank you! I loved that scene from Giant. I don't mean that I like Bick getting the snot kicked out of him...But they should have made the clip longer. I think one thing I always take away watching Giant. Texans can be and are unique in the American landscape. As different as Rick Perry and Lady Bird Johnson. . Link to post Share on other sites
pturman Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 You're welcome! And thank you for the SHANE post. Another great classic from George Stevens. Also thank you for the Monkees song on the other thread. BTW, how's your toe, Casablanca? Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 All healed! Back in pretty sandals again. I love the idea of wearing sandals all year. Thanks for asking. Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted November 24, 2011 Author Share Posted November 24, 2011 Why Beethoven's 7th hasn't been made more use of I don't know. If I had a movie camera I think I would start with it. I could have posted this in one of the music threads as easily. This isn't what I would have had in mind, but it would do tillI got a camera, and a very dynamic leading man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JdC8aoHOO0 PS - I take it back. After viewing the post, this is a rather dynamic leading man. Edited by: LuckyDan on Nov 24, 2011 3:24 AM Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Great post, Dan. I had forgotten how powerful that was. Beethoven was the perfect choice. Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted November 29, 2011 Author Share Posted November 29, 2011 I'm glad you enjoyed it, CBL. Robert Mitchum is one of those respected actors whose appeal always escaped me, but I do enjoy this role, and this scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZm_fociPi4 Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted November 30, 2011 Author Share Posted November 30, 2011 Sal Mineo. A shamefully underutilized actor. This is the movie (if not the scene) where I recall first taking serious note of him. I'd seen him before, but it is this film that made me learn his name. I recall thinking, wow. Cool. Live in a basement beside a busy city street. Make plans. Buddies will walk by to help me out now and then. Yeah, you might catch cold, but . . . From Somebody Up There Likes Me Edited by: LuckyDan on Nov 30, 2011 1:06 AM Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 All my scenes seem to be from the 60s and 70s. Hmmm . . . I always enjoy this movie, and this key scene. Saw it a few months ago on a digital sub-channel and have been meaning to post it. Reminds me of a similar, if less dramatic, event with a nemesis prof in my own college days. I didn't have it in me to exit the way Hart did. The Paper Chase, with John Houseman and Timothy Bottoms. Edited by: LuckyDan on Dec 11, 2011 2:05 AM Link to post Share on other sites
musicalnovelty Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 My good friend former child actress Susan Gordon just passed away on Sunday, Dec. 11. She left us way too young at only age 62. She is and will be very much missed. Some favorite scenes: (She told me that the card playing scene was her "audition" for this movie. She did so well at it that she got the part). And another nice clip: Link to post Share on other sites
SansFin Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 This is one of my favorite clips: She looks so delightfully wicked at the end while Elsa Lancaster cackles so perfectly! Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 I'm sorry to hear of your friend's passing, MN. Thank you for remembering her here, with that scene. I hope she had happy memories of working with Danny Kaye. Seems like any child would. Link to post Share on other sites
musicalnovelty Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 > {quote:title=LuckyDan wrote: > }{quote}I'm sorry to hear of your friend's passing, MN. Thank you for remembering her here, with that scene. I hope she had happy memories of working with Danny Kaye. Seems like any child would. Yes, she enjoyed working in THE FIVE PENNIES and I think it shows in her performance, especially in the musical sequences and scenes with Danny Kaye. She actually enjoyed her acting career and retired voluntarily at age 17 and had a happy and productive life. Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 J.J. Sefton on the advantages of free trade and enlightened self-interest in Stalag 17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WH2g7Lwj0k Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 In honor of David Lean and Jack Cardiff: from Summertime (1955). Note her first tour on the Canals of Venice aboard the "Bus" One of the best blends of photography and music I have ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQEa5llZDLQ&feature=related Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 1, 2012 1:43 AM Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 That's a good looking film, CBL. Here's a sequence from Monkey Business I enjoy. It starts too late here - I would have preferred it begin at that car lot where Cary recognizes Marilyn just by the sight of her legs. "In my opinion, that's a silly song." I love watching MMs facial expressions here. Happiness, surprise, shock, disappointment. It's all there without a word. Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Tried my best to find the scene of Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney from Two for the Road where they handle a sluggish MG up the hill.. Great scene, LuckyDan, I will see if I can post something after work tonight. Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 > {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}Tried my best to find the scene of Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney from Two for the Road where they handle a sluggish MG up the hill.. > > > > Great scene, LuckyDan, I will see if I can post something after work tonight. Audrey and Albert had some great dialogue in that one. Excellent idea. One of my sisters (an Audrey wannabe in her youth) tells me Albert reminds her of me in that one. I think she is remembering a time when we were driving one day, bickering about whatever (I think I didn't want to change the radio station). It had been raining earlier and I had my window down. A car passed us and splashed water on my face. She busted out laughing. I turned the radio up. Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Well, you're going to have to play the movie in your mind.. Another favorite of Audrey, a favorite scene of hers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LxY3jVyMZw Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Thanks, Mr6. This one dovetails nicely with your selection, featuring the generation of schoolboys that followed. Here is Glenn Ford, (as a teacher fortuitously named "Dadier") kicking butt and taking names, in The Blackboard Jungle. It's fun to see the youthful Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier playing smoking smirking punks, and Jameel Farah, later known as Jamie Farr, playing . . . what? a kid who seems a little . . . off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tnsFyp5Cg4&feature=related It ends too soon, and anticlimactically. Frustrating if you're into it, but not many clips available on YT of this one. I wonder if a teacher today, faced with a group like this, could deal with them this way without having to worry about a lawsuit. Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I hadn't thought of this movie in a while, but the mention of the title brings this clip back to me entirely. I love the expression on the tech's face at the 4:30 mark; it is the one shot that sells it for me. I love the use of music in this. [Close Encounters of the Third Kind|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCBgSRNjk0&feature=related] Link to post Share on other sites
Lori3 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Hi Fred. I didn't realize this subject / or thread is so old. Any ways I agree with you that last scene from Fugitive From A Chain Gang is great. I read somewhere that it wasn't planned for the lights to go out when Paul Muni said the last words, "I steal" but that the director liked it so much he left the scene as it was filmed. Great movie, great scene (haunting) and one of Muni's great performances. Link to post Share on other sites
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