midwestan Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Thanks for the write-up on "Private Property" cigarjoe! I saw this last week on TCM, and while the plot was on the creepy side for me, I stuck with it. Kate Manx could definitely have passed for Barbara Eden's sister, and Corey Allen was excellent in portraying a range of emotions that's common in people with troubled minds. The camera shot of her trying to hide in the swimming pool during the film's climax was pretty cool. It seems like the film didn't wreck Warren Oates' career though. The guy got plenty of work for the rest of the decade and into the 70's. I really liked Oates in "Dillinger", which followed "Private Property" last week. His no-nonsense portrayal of the the infamous gangster was sharp, and the supporting cast of Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Steve Kanaly, and Richard Dreyfus were all good. I think some of the 'shoot-out' scenes were a bit over the top and greatly embellished (made me think the siege at The Alamo took less time). I wasn't too crazy about the art-deco look to the graphics used in this movie. On a big screen it might have been alright to see where and when scenes were set and who played which part, as well as the epilogue for three of the film's characters. On a smaller screen for home viewing, it was tough to make out the print sometimes, unless you were right next to the screen. Another takeaway from "Dillinger" was how much Ben Johnson and Barry Corbin (Maurice from the TV show "Northern Exposure") sound alike! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 2 films I saw for the first time this week: 1) The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg- Am I the only person who would have liked this film better if it had not been presented completely in "operatic" form? *Of course, I'm not stating that I don't love the music; it is truly gorgeous.* 2) Othello (1952 version)- Does anyone know the reason for Welles omitting the " I kissed thee, ere I killed thee..." dialogue from the script? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Thanks for the write-up on "Private Property" cigarjoe! I saw this last week on TCM, and while the plot was on the creepy side for me, I stuck with it. Kate Manx could definitely have passed for Barbara Eden's sister, and Corey Allen was excellent in portraying a range of emotions that's common in people with troubled minds. The camera shot of her trying to hide in the swimming pool during the film's climax was pretty cool. It seems like the film didn't wreck Warren Oates' career though. The guy got plenty of work for the rest of the decade and into the 70's. I really liked Oates in "Dillinger", which followed "Private Property" last week. His no-nonsense portrayal of the the infamous gangster was sharp, and the supporting cast of Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Steve Kanaly, and Richard Dreyfus were all good. I think some of the 'shoot-out' scenes were a bit over the top and greatly embellished (made me think the siege at The Alamo took less time). I wasn't too crazy about the art-deco look to the graphics used in this movie. On a big screen it might have been alright to see where and when scenes were set and who played which part, as well as the epilogue for three of the film's characters. On a smaller screen for home viewing, it was tough to make out the print sometimes, unless you were right next to the screen. Another takeaway from "Dillinger" was how much Ben Johnson and Barry Corbin (Maurice from the TV show "Northern Exposure") sound alike! What is really surprising is for all the complaining about how many times TCM shows North By Northwest, or fill in the _______, when something new is premiered apparently no body seems to have watched it or at least none of the posters here on the board did (maybe they DVR-ed it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 What is really surprising is for all the complaining about how many times TCM shows North By Northwest, or fill in the _______, when something new is premiered apparently no body seems to have watched it or at least none of the posters here on the board did (maybe they DVR-ed it). I recorded it, and I also thank you for your write-up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Hidden Figures (now playing in theaters) True story of three African-American women who worked for NASA on the Mercury program in the early 1960s. Solid performances by all, some laugh-out-loud scenes, and some very emotional moments. An important look back at the civil rights issues of the time period. The climax is a bit Apollo 13ish, and I’m fairly certain some scenes were embellished, but who cares. You should walk away from this film smiling, maybe even a bit choked up. You don’t need to understand the mathematics to enjoy the flick (but I admit, it was fun to hear some concepts I haven’t heard since my college days). The theater was almost full, with people of all ages. I was particularly happy to see some kids there, as there is much for them to take away from this film. Twice during the movie the audience broke into applause, and then applauded at the end credits as well. I don’t recall the last time I heard that at a film. And I did not see a cell phone light up the whole time. Truly a miracle. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 "1984" (1984) on the Viceland channel. They blurred out the nude scenes, find it ironic a movie about censorship is censored after midnight on this channel. You will NOT see THAT by the orders of the Thought Police. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Twice during the movie the audience broke into applause, and then applauded at the end credits as well. I don’t recall the last time I heard that at a film. And I did not see a cell phone light up the whole time. Truly a miracle. Yes, sometimes audiences do surprise . Last Sunday, I saw the matinee showing of Singing In The Rain with some family. I'm used to showing up 15 min before showtime and being able to find a seat to my liking. I was surprised to find they were sold out of tickets. We quickly traveled to the nearest other theater showing the film, and got in as the opening credits were showing. This theater was nearly packed,as well. The audience applauded after every musical number in the film, and "Make Em Laugh" solicited whistles and hoorays along with extended applause. All ages were present, and NO cell phones lit up as far as I could see! The applause at the end was impressive, too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Hidden Figures (now playing in theaters) The theater was almost full, it's done HUGE box office, well on its way to doing $100 million domestically. Would not be surprised if it rode a wave to Best Picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Yes, but remember Rich, TWO Wongs never make a right. Chinese brothers opening a laundry service proved that two Wongs can make it white. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 True story of three African-American women who worked for NASA on the Mercury program in the early 1960s. Solid performances by all, some laugh-out-loud scenes, and some very emotional moments. An important look back at the civil rights issues of the time period. The climax is a bit Apollo 13ish, and I’m fairly certain some scenes were embellished, but who cares. You should walk away from this film smiling, maybe even a bit choked up. No offense, but as somebody born in 1972, I'm wondering when we as a society are finally going to move past the 60s. I'm to the point of calling it cultural arrested development that the Baby Boomers have left us in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow_Leach Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 No offense, but as somebody born in 1972, I'm wondering when we as a society are finally going to move past the 60s. I'm to the point of calling it cultural arrested development that the Baby Boomers have left us in. Just curious... Would you have wondered, say, as a moviegoer in the 1930s-40s, when we were going to get out of the Elizabethan age? Or Victorian London? Eras that had some significance will be revisited again and again, particularly if there is either universal, cultural, or topical relevance to the story at hand. Life's too short for temporal prejudice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 No offense, but as somebody born in 1972, I'm wondering when we as a society are finally going to move past the 60s. I'm to the point of calling it cultural arrested development that the Baby Boomers have left us in. When they die off, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 No offense, but as somebody born in 1972, I'm wondering when we as a society are finally going to move past the 60s. I'm to the point of calling it cultural arrested development that the Baby Boomers have left us in. Okay then..."kid". So are ya lookin' for movies about the '80s then? So, what's THAT gonna be about, HUH?! (...big hair and yuppies, MAYBE???) LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Okay then..."kid". So are ya lookin' for movies about the '80s then? So, what's THAT gonna be about, HUH?! (...big hair and yuppies, MAYBE???) Square pegs, square pegs.......square.......square.......pegs!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyCronin Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 New Wave is NOT PUNK! It's different, totally different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 New Wave is NOT PUNK! It's different, totally different! What's that got to do with what you just watched? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Invasion USA (1952) youtube A bunch of people are in a bar, when tv reporter Gerald Mohr strolls in and starts asking everyone how they feel about a “universal draft.” Well, personally, I’m always a little chilly. The other characters in the bar consist of Peggie Castle, Dan O’Herlihy (as “Mr. Ohman” – omen, get it????), and some other clowns you don’t care about. (looks at clips again)...Wait, that IS Dan O'Herlihy! I was too used to seeing old Dan O'Herlihy from his 80's comeback, in "The Last Starfighter" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch"! (And, of course, Robocop: "Dick, I'm very disappointed.") dargo So are ya lookin' for movies about the '80s then? So, what's THAT gonna be about, HUH?! All we have at the moment are incredibly unfunny sitcoms that pretend to know about the 80's, and get everything heretically wrong. (No one will ever do it better than the old VH-1 series.) Basically, there's a 15-20 year generational blackout-period as the previous generation wants to forget the previous decade, and the next generation that wasn't there wants to rediscover it-- Remember when "Back to the Future II"'s jokes about "the 80's Cafe'" seemed so revolutionary in 1989? There was already a sentimentality for 50's music in the '69 rock revolution (when Sha Na Na played Woodstock), long before George Lucas and TV sitcoms made it a cultural craze in the mid-70's. 60's Motown music was rediscovered by "The Big Chill" in 1983, just in time for classic TV reruns to be rediscovered on mid-80's cable, and every other great 60's moment to be discovered on "The Wonder Years". (When 1978's "The Big Fix" tried to look back at the 60's, nobody noticed, because the Blackout period hadn't expired yet after just ten years...See how it works?) I'm not sure when the chic for jokes about the hideous 70's disco era started, but it became a big thing in the 90's, and now 90's chic (Alternative music! "The Craft"! CW series! The birth of cellphones and Internet chats!) is starting to become "nostalgic" with 10's kids who don't have anything else to remember. If you can't think of a single thing about the 00's to be nostalgic about, well, that's how the "blackout period" works when you're in it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 That '50's music nostalgia craze was already bubbling up by the mid '60's. Frank Zappa's "Ruben and The Jets" ('68) helped kick it to a higher gear. But I agree that each decade gets nostalgically recalled about a decade or more after it's passed. By the mid '70's people were making fun or whistfully recalling the '60's. And the '70's by the mid '80's and so forth. As this century started out inauspiciously, there's little anybody wishes to look back on with any sense of nostalgia. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LsDoorMat Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 No offense, but as somebody born in 1972, I'm wondering when we as a society are finally going to move past the 60s. I'm to the point of calling it cultural arrested development that the Baby Boomers have left us in. There are parts of any time period that are worth examining in detail. Because the 60s were a time of great change in attitudes and in law in the United States in relation to race, these stories are interesting. I was born in 1958 in Dallas, and I can remember when the only African American people I had seen up close until I was about ten were a woman working in the elementary school cafeteria and a woman who took care of the elderly relative of a neighbor. That's because it was legal until 1964 to tell people that they could not rent or own a house in a certain neighborhood because of their race. And still people could get around it. In 1973 my parents were renting our house as we were moving into a different home. They got one of the earliest answering machines just so they could screen calls from potential renters and not return the calls of people who they thought were African American. Against that backdrop, here is the story of three women who not only made it in a man's profession, but a white man's profession. It's an uplifting story. Maybe forty years from now we'll have a film where we revisit, from that time period, the fight for gay rights and gay marriage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 "Riders To The Stars" (1954)--Starring William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall, and Martha Hyer. Low budget 50's sci-fi has twelve men selected for an unknown mission. If they choose to accept the mission, and after passing various physical and psychological tests, the mission turns out to be catching a meteor/its' remnants and bringing it back to Earth. Will any of the twelve survive the movie? Characters are all Types; Marshall has fun barking out his lines as Concerned Head Scientist. Hyer is Lady Scientist Who Falls In Love, etc. Movie had two Technical Advisors from UCLA. There is some stock footage that doubles as Special effects; the SE are unremarkable, to say the most. Unexciting sci-fi entry is ok, but is best viewed with a supply of caffeine at hand. 2/4. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 No offense, but as somebody born in 1972, I'm wondering when we as a society are finally going to move past the 60s. I'm to the point of calling it cultural arrested development that the Baby Boomers have left us in. No worries, our new "president" promises to undo the 60s and take us back to the 50s and before. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickAndNora34 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Re-watched My Fair Lady (1964). I haven't had much time for watching movies at the moment, as I am currently "earning my ears" at Walt Disney World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Re-watched My Fair Lady (1964). I haven't had much time for watching movies at the moment, as I am currently "earning my ears" at Walt Disney World. First trip, or running 5K marathon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickAndNora34 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 First trip, or running 5K marathon? Neither, I was accepted into the Disney College Program and have started working in the Magic Kingdom and will be here until May 18 of this year (unless I decide to extend my program). I am planning on persevering and dedicating myself to becoming a performer for their parks eventually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I just watched...on TCM... James Mason excellently playing one of biggest damn abusive and manipulative jerks of a husband and father you'll ever see in this flick made in the land of the superfluous-u, circa 1945. And, a guy in serious(and I mean SERIOUS) need of a freakin' beat-down! THAT'S how good as usual the great James Mason was in this movie. BOY, do ya ever end up hatin' the S.O.B.! I'm talking about the movie THEY WERE SISTERS, and not a bad little melodrama, I might say. I liked the way in which it started out presenting all the main characters in younger adulthood, and thus giving this viewer a basis to see why these characters later(17 years to be exact) would end up in the situations and interpersonal dynamics in which they would find themselves. In fact, I found the acting done by everyone to be first rate, even by the child actors. But then again, HEY, they're British, so what did ya expect, RIGHT?! Btw, the moral of the story in this one seems to be: People in general and by the choices they make, get what they deserve in life. (...rating: 2.9/4...no, wait a sec...make that 3.1/4...Mason's performance made it better than just 2.9) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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