Swithin Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 How could I forget to mention this great performance from 1962: Abel Salazar as Baron Vitelius d'Estera. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 Italy’s Nastro d’Argento Film Awards for 1962 were … Best Actor Vittorio Gassman, Il Sorpasso Best Actress Gina Lollobrigida, Imperial Venus Best Supporting Actor Romolo Valli, A Milanese Story Best Supporting Actress Regina Bianchi, The Four Days of Naples —————————————————————————————— Italy’s David di Donatello Awards for 1962 were … Best Actor Raf Vallone, A View From the Bridge Best Foreign Actor Spencer Tracy, Judgment at Nuremberg (61) Anthony Perkins, Goodbye Again (61) Best Foreign Actress Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (61) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 Bond, James Bond Though he only made my runner up list of best actors of 1962, Sean Connery's 007 in Dr. No set the world on fire and became the most iconic British Secret Agent of all time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 The Bond films were one of the great crazes of the '60s. As a kid I kept hearing Shirley Bassey's brassy, rousing rendition of Goldfinger all the time on the radio. Yet, being the obstinate type and refusing to jump on a popular craze, I refused to go to any of the Bond films. That is, until 1967 when I finally weakened and went to see You Only Live Twice. And I loved it! The next thing I knew I was going to a couple of second run cinemas to see double bills of Connery's four previous 007 outings. Goldfinger was my favourite (and remains so to this day, having seen close to all of the Bond films made since then). The most indelible image of the first of the Bonds, Dr. No: Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder, the most amazing wet female form to excite film audiences (well, the male half, anyway) since Sophia Loren in Boy on a Dolphin 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Though he only made my runner up list of best actors of 1962, Sean Connery's 007 in Dr. No set the world on fire and became the most iconic British Secret Agent of all time. I don't think you need that British qualifier...I think most iconic secret agent, period, is apt. One thing that is striking about the Bond characterization in Dr. No is how much more cold-blooded Bond is. He's much closer to the Bond in Ian Fleming's books and stories. The scene where he assembles his pistol with a silencer and then calmly waits in the dark for an assassin to arrive, dispatching the villain with multiple shots but hardly a trace of emotion, are quite striking, especially to anyone used to the sillier Bond films that came later (Roger Moore). This scene alone is why I nominated Connery, although he's good throughout. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 The popularity of the Bond films soon led to parodies, of course, or even just a poke at a particular scene: This scene from Dr. No . . . . . .would soon be spoofed by Bob Hope in Call Me Bwana 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 Japan’s Blue Ribbon Awards for 1962 were … Best Actor Tatsuya Nakadai, Harakiri Best Actress Sayuri Yoshinaga, Foundry Town Best Supporting Actor Yunosuke Ito, Shinobi no Mono Best Supporting Actress Kyoko Kishida, An Autumn Afternoon and The Outcast Here is a good reason why we should ignore trying to shadow the years in which these films were in award competitions as opposed to the release dates. Japan’s Blue Ribbon Award for the Best Foreign Language Film of 1962 went to The Grapes of Wrath (1940). ————————————————————————————— Japan’s Mainichi Awards for 1962 were … Best Actor Taiji Tonoyama, Human/Ningen Best Actress Mariko Okada, Akitsu Springs Best Supporting Actor Eijiro Tono, An Autumn Afternoon and Foundry Town Best Supporting Actress Kyoko Kishida, An Autumn Afternoon, Shinobi no Mono and The Outcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Best Supporting Actor Yunosuke Ito, Shinobi no Mono I'm glad to see this movie mentioned. It was an early ninja film, long before they became the pop culture objects of tongue-in-cheek camp. Based on a somewhat mythological historical tale, it follows a young apprentice ninja tasked with assassinating the most powerful man in Japan. There are myriad political entanglements, and double-crosses abound. The lead was Raizo Ichikawa, one of the biggest stars in Japan from the early 1950's through the late 1960's. There were 7 or 8 entries in the Shinobi series. I've seen the first two, and enjoyed them quite a bit. Yunosuke Ito plays the devious ninja master Sandayu, and he is good in the role. He may be familiar to fans of Japanese cinema, with appearances in many of Kurosawa's films. Shinobi no mono poster, with Ito at bottom center. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 The first time I saw Lolita, I was struck by the odd vocal characterization by Peter Sellers as Quilty. It wasn't until years later that I learned that he was imitating Stanley Kubrick's own voice, which made the performance all the more humorous to me. It ranks among the other fun performer-as-filmmaker turns along with Ward Bond as the John Ford-like John Dodge in The Wings of Eagles, Dustin Hoffman as a Robert Evans-like producer in Wag the Dog, and Robert DeNiro as Martin Scorsese as the Devil in Angel Heart. One could also mention Burt Lancaster using Visconti as a model for his performance in The Leopard. More about that next week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 I don't think we've heard from Kay yet and if we do I may have some more for my 'to see' list. I net meantime here is a quite substantial list the films from 1962 that were mentioned that I have not seen as yet. Advise & Consent with Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon and Burgess Meredith Akitsu Springs with Mariko Okada All Night Long with Patrick McGoohan An Autumn Afternoon with Chishu Ryu, Kyoko Kishida, Shima Iwashira, Mariko Okada and Eijiro Tono Boys’ Night Out with James Garner, Kim Novak, Tony Randall and Ruth McDevitt The Chapman Report with Glynis Johns, Claire Bloom and Harold J. Stone Chushingura with Setsuko Hara Cleo From 5 to 7 with Corrine Marchand David and Lisa with Keir Dullea and Howard Da Silva The Dock Brief with Richard Attenborough Foundry Town with Sayuri Yoshinaga and Eijiro Tono The Four Days of Naples with Regina Bianchi Gigot with Jackie Gleason Gypsy with Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden Ann Jillian and the strippers! Human/Ningen with Taiji Tonoyama If a Man Answers with Cesar Romero Il Sorpasso with Vittorio Gassman Imperial Venus with Gina Lollobrigida In the French Style with Jean Seberg (I think this is 1963. the imdb has the actual release date) The Interns with Kaye Stevens The Intruder with William Shatner A Kind of Loving with Alan Bates and Thora Hird L’Eclisse with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti Life For Ruth/Walk In the Shadow with Janet Munro Light In the Piazza with George Hamilton Lisa/The Inspector with Donald Pleasence A Milanese Story with Romolo Valli Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation with James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, John McGiver and Laurie Peters My Geisha with Shirley MacLaine No Exit with Viveca Lindfors The Outcast with Kyoko Kishida Phaedra with Melina Mercouri Pressure Point with Bobby Darin Shinobi no Mono with Yunosuke Ito and Kyoko Kishida The Swedish Mistress with Bibi Andersson The Tale of Zatoichi with Shintaro Katsu Tender Is the Night with Jason Robards Term of Trial with Laurence Oliver, Simone Signoret and Sarah Miles That Touch of Mink with Cary Grant and Doris Day Therese Desqueyroux with Philippe Noiret Two for the Seesaw with Shirley MacLaine The Wild and the Willing with Virginia Maskell The World’s Greatest Sinner with Timothy Carey And I would like to see this again … The Pigeon That Took Rome with Charlton Heston, Gabriella Pallotta and Harry Guardino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Advise & Consent with Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon and Burgess Meredith An Autumn Afternoon with Chishu Ryu, Kyoko Kishida, Shima Iwashira, Mariko Okada and Eijiro Tono Chushingura with Setsuko Hara Cleo From 5 to 7 with Corrine Marchand David and Lisa with Keir Dullea and Howard Da Silva The Intruder with William Shatner L’Eclisse with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation with James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, John McGiver and Laurie Peters My Geisha with Shirley MacLaine Pressure Point with Bobby Darin Shinobi no Mono with Yunosuke Ito and Kyoko Kishida The Tale of Zatoichi with Shintaro Katsu Two for the Seesaw with Shirley MacLaine The World’s Greatest Sinner with Timothy Carey I've seen all of these, quite a few. We've discussed some (Shinobi no mono, World's Greatest Sinner) already. Out of those not discussed, The Tale of Zatoichi is the first in the long-running Japanese series about wandering blind masseuse and gambler Ichi, who stumbles into various confrontations in feudal Japan. The whole series is worth checking out, and this first installment is a bit primitive compared to later entries, but it's always best to start at the beginning. Katsu's performance is humorous, moving, and exciting all at once. Chushingura is a big-budget version of the 47 Ronin story. It's a 3 1/2 hour epic, but if you have the patience, it's rewarding in the end. The large cast also includes Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune. There has been much written about An Autumn Afternoon, L'Eclisse and Cleo from 5 to 7, and I recommend them all as important films in world cinema. David and Lisa was better than I expected, a touching romantic drama about troubled teens in a mental ward that is worth checking out. Advise and Consent is an all-star political drama from Otto Preminger that's also worth a look, even if it fell a little short for me. My Geisha and Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation are agreeable fluff from the period. But my recommendation would be The Intruder. William Shatner stars as a speaker who travels from small town to small town stirring up racial hatred and unrest and profiting from the resulting turmoil. It's a caustic, cynical movie, and Shatner is really good in the loathsome lead role. It was written by Charles Beaumont, a name closely associated with The Twilight Zone and other stories of the macabre, but this story is sadly reality-based. Roger Corman directed, and in the bonus features on the DVD I have, Corman calls this the best work he ever did. I also nominated Jeanne Cooper for Best Supporting Actress for this movie. She became a daytime TV fixture for decades on the soap opera The Young & the Restless for 40 years, but here she plays a "loose woman" with more depth than usually found in this type of role. This movie has also been released as Shame, The Stranger and I Hate Your Guts! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Here are the 1962 movies I have not seen (**** indicates movies I have recorded but have not watched): Akitsu Springs All Night Long Billy Rose's Jumbo**** Boccaccio '70 Boys' Night Out The Chapman Report The Counterfeit Traitor The Dock Brief Eve/Eva Experiment in Terror**** Family Diary Foundry Town The Four Days of Naples Freud Gigot Gypsy Human/Ningen If a Man Answers Il Sorpasso**** Imperial Venus In Search of the Castaways In the French Style The Interns A Kind of Loving Le Doulos Life for Ruth/Walk in the Shadow Light In the Piazza Lisa Mamma Rosa A Milanese Story No Exit The Outcast Period of Adjustment Phaedra The Pigeon That Took Rome Requiem for a Heavyweight**** Tender Is the Night Term of Trial**** That Touch of Mink**** Therese Desqueyroux A View from the Bridge The Wild and the Willing The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm**** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 Here are the 1962 movies I have not seen (**** indicates movies I have recorded but have not watched): Billy Rose's Jumbo**** Boccaccio '70 The Counterfeit Traitor Eve/Eva Experiment in Terror**** Family Diary In Search of the Castaways Light In the Piazza Mamma Rosa Period of Adjustment The Pigeon That Took Rome Requiem for a Heavyweight**** A View from the Bridge The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm**** i saw Billy Rose's Jumbo not long ago. Proceed with little expectation is all I can say. A View From the Bridge was long hard to come by as it is an Italian production. I saw it a ages ago and have now bought a dvd copy on Amazon but I have yet to see if the quality is any good. My recommendation from this bunch is Requiem For a Heavyweight. Jackie Gleason is just as good in this as he is in The Hustler. And Cassius Clay opens the film! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Sorry if I put In the French Style a year too soon. Preview of coming attractions: It's a dramatization of two Irwin Shaw stories. Jean Seberg plays the same character in both. In the first, and better, half, she and a young man she meets try to find a hotel room so they can spend the night together. A few years have passed before the second half, as Seberg meets up with the married man she's been having an affair with. Stanley Baker, as usual, delivers a strong performance as the married man. Speaking of Stanley Baker, both he and Jeanne Moreau give memorable performances in Joseph Losey's Eva, aka Eve. Baker plays a Welsh writer living on an island near Venice; Moreau plays the woman who decides to spend the night in his house when he's out for the evening. Baker has a sweet fiancee, Virna Lisi, but he's much more drawn to the dominating Eve. Losey's style is go-for-baroque; some enjoy it; others don't. One obvious admirer of the film was Nicolas Roeg; if you've seen Don't Look Now, you'll spot some obvious influences. The producers re-cut the film, and what's available on VHS is not Losey's cut. Fans of Baker, Moreau, Losey, and/or baroque style might want to investigate. Term of Trial is a drama about a schoolteacher (Laurence Olivier) in an unhappy marriage (Simone Signoret is his wife) who is accused of having sex with a student (Sarah Miles). Well made for this kind of drama. Signoret delivers the intensity, and this is by far the best performance from Sarah Miles that I have seen. Lisa is an excellent drama, based on a novel by Jan de Hartog, about a woman who was the subject of medical experiments in the concentration camps. She is in Holland, seeking passage to Palestine. Dolores Hart is excellent as Lisa; Stephen Boyd is also quite good as the man who tries to help her, and of course falls for her; and Donald Pleasence, as usual, gives a quietly strong performance as a man who may be able to help her. Experiment in Terror is a first-rate thriller. The Blake Edwards who directed this and Days of Wine and Roses (in the same year) bears little resemblance to the director of his comedies, most of which are not favorites of mine. Perhaps Lee Remick was his real muse? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 My recommendation from this bunch is Requiem For a Heavyweight. Jackie Gleason is just as good in this as he is in The Hustler. And Cassius Clay opens the film! He opens a few cuts around Mountain Rivera's eyes too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoraSmith Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Boccaccio '70 is a collection of four short films by four different Italian directors: Fellini, Visconti, De Sica and the lesser known Mario Monicelli. The part by Fellini is my favorite. Peppino De Filippo plays a man of conservative moral convictions who becomes obsessed by a woman on a billboard (Anita Ekberg). It convinced me that Fellini can be funny and sexy, and it aroused my interest in his bigger films. Also worth mentioning is Vittorio de Sica's contribution with Sophia Loren. L'Eclisse ("The Eclipse") is a rather hermetic film by Michelangelo Antonioni. Monica Vitti and Alain Delon play two lovers. He's a cold stockbroker, she's a dreamy translator. It contains a weird, politically incorrect scene with Monica Vitti dressed up as an African tribal dancer. It has a slow pace and the final scenes have no dialogue, but it's poetic and contains beautiful images. I would advice to start with L'Avventura and then go to La Notte and this one if you want to see more. They can be seen as a loose trilogy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 Before we hit 1963 I would like to mention that I am going with the December 1963 Italian release date for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and not 1964 Oscar contention date. And I’m going with the November 1963 UK release date for The Servant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I just had to mention that tomorrow would have been the 99th birthday of Abel Salazar, the previously mentioned Mexican movie star of 1962's The Brainiac. Happy Birthday, Brainiac! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 1962 - Punctual, as always. Most of what I have here has already been properly lauded, so I haven't much else to add. Cheers. ActorRobert Mitchum - Cape Fear***** Robert Preston - The Music ManJames Mason - Lolita Jason Robards - Long Day's Journey Into Night Robert Ryan - Billy BuddLaurence Harvey - The Manchurian CandidateRalph Richardson - Long Day's Journey Into NightNikolay Burlyaev - Ivan's Childhood (juvenile)Alberto Sordi - Mafioso James Stewart - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Terence Stamp - Billy BuddDean Stockwell - Long Day's Journey Into Night Pierre Etaix - The Suitor ActressBette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?*** Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey Into Night Anna Magnani - Mamma Roma Joan Crawford - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Supporting ActorVictor Buono - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?*** Lee Marvin - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Peter Sellers - Lolita Paul Ford - The Music Man Supporting Actress Shelley Winters - Lolita***Angela Lansbury - The Manchurian Candidate Jeanne Barr - Long Day's Journey Into Night Luisa Loiano - Mamma Roma [these last two just for making me chuckle] 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TomJH Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I just had to mention that tomorrow would have been the 99th birthday of Abel Salazar, the previously mentioned Mexican movie star of 1962's The Brainiac. Happy Birthday, Brainiac! He looks like he's giving her a mean massage. What a guy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 Leading vs. Supporting Categories in 1963 … And IMO Rex Harrison’s part in Cleopatra is that of a co-lead. I have three leads for The Great Escape: James Garner, Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough. I have Susannah York as the leading actress in Tom Jones and Patricia Neal as the leading actress in Hud. Brandon de Wilde is a co-lead with Paul Newman in Hud. James Fox and Dirk Bogarde are co-leads in The Servant. Julie Christie is a supporting actress in Billy Liar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 It’s time for 1963. We will be on 1963 for one week so plenty of time for everyone to respond. Here are Oscar’s choices for 1963. Winners in bold. Best Actor Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field* Albert Finney, Tom Jones Richard Harris, This Sporting Life Rex Harrison, Cleopatra Paul Newman, Hud Best Actress Patricia Neal, Hud* Leslie Caron, The L-Shaped Room (62) Shirley MacLaine, Irma La Douce Rachel Roberts, This Sporting Life Natalie Wood, Love With the Proper Stranger Best Supporting Actor Melvyn Douglas, Hud* Nick Adams, Twilight of Honor Bobby Darin, Captain Newman, M.D. Hugh Griffith, Tom Jones John Huston, The Cardinal Best Supporting Actress Margaret Rutherford, The V.I.P.’s* Diane Cilento, Tom Jones Edith Evans, Tom Jones Joyce Redman, Tom Jones Lilia Skala, Lilies of the Field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 My choice for the Juvenile Acting award for 1963 is… Veronica Cartwright (Cathy Brenner), The Birds 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 1963 BEST ACTOR Dirk Bogarde The Servant**** Richard Harris This Sporting Life Albert Finney Tom Jones Gunnar Bjornstrand Winter Light Steve McQueen The Great Escape Marcello Mastroianni 8 1/2 Paul Newman Hud Tom Courtenay Billy Liar James Garner The Great Escape Sidney Poitier Lilies of the Field Burt Lancaster The Leopard Toshiro Mifune High and Low Akira Kobayashi Kanto Wanderer Oliver Reed Paranoiac BEST ACTRESS Rachel Roberts This Sporting Life**** Ingrid Thulin The Silence Julie Harris The Haunting Sophia Loren Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Patricia Neal Hud BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Donald Pleasence The Great Escape**** Robert Shaw From Russia With Love Melvyn Douglas Hud Pedro Armendariz From Russia With Love Peter Sellers The Pink Panther Charles Bronson The Great Escape Mal Arnold Blood Feast BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Lotte Lenya From Russia With Love**** Margaret Rutherford The V.I.P.s Julie Christie Billy Liar Edith Evans Tom Jones Sandra Milo 8 1/2 Diane Cilento Tom Jones Rina Morelli The Leopard BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE Veronica Cartwright The Birds**** 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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