Well, I thought maybe there was an indian movie on that subject!
my favorite steve Mcqueen movie was "The Rievers",
Ciderhouse, oh yeh,boy id like to watch that now.
Also "The Illustrated man".
Ive gotten rather fond of a rather raunchy comedy Badd(er) santa ,
the other night Its a mad mad mad ... world was left on, Kids never saw it. They were laughing , that felt good cause I thought of it as a guilty pleasure category movie.
"Mad Mad World. My dad took me to see it when I was 12. We laughed so hard people were shushing us. Jonathan Winters on the tricycle! Ay Ya Yay!
wha happened to the beagle nose of the month panzade?
When they get older they're just not as cute.
Well, now I want to see Cider House Blues..
and madmadmadworld
and I thought of another one today as I heard reggae on the radio..
The Harder They Fall, I have seen that probably three times, although all at the Fox Venice, where it didn't quite count. They had a full schedule of two movies a night forever, always changing, and arranged to make sense together. J and I would go sometimes four times a week. This is a large part of why I keep mentioning all these classic "foreign" - to the US - movies. I saw a whole lot more than I mention, that I liked. Plus scads of Noir, and so on. I did finally get tired of ads for Harold and Maude, though.
I could elevate the Fox Venice to movie sainthood.
"Harder" was a great movie with a superb soundtrack.
I dunno about great movie, in cinematic terms, but I saw it with engagement more than once.
never saw it. Is that the boxing movie?
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" not being seen in the original Cinerama (the first one that was actually 70MM Panavision on a curved screen) somewhat dampens its comedy, especially the final scenes.
Watched "Rear Window" last night. For about the 167th time.
I can watch nearly any Hitchcock film over and over. "Vertigo" still remains at the top.
I've been thinking about what you said osso. You're right, it's not a great movie but with the resources they had available it does shine. Also, I was interested in the music studio scenes and I still play the soundtrack in heavy rotation.
hmm. I'd like to see The Harder They Come. I doubt if it's ever going to be shown on TV though.
And speaking of Hitchcock - I watched "Rebecca" for the umpteenth time last night. And something's bothering me. In a scene in the cottage by the sea, while Olivier is explaning the events of his wife's death to Fontaine, he is smoking a cigarette. We see him toss the lit cig, but we don't see where it lands. That little cottage would have been up in smoke before they half finished their conversation. I wonder if Hitchcock was curious as to whether we'd notice that. (lol)
Mmmmm, that review in the link helped me remember why I liked The Harder They Come.
It also mentioned Roma, Open City, and Bicycle Thief re movie realism. I don't remember Fellini's Roma very well, except for the middle of the night motorcycle ride through the city, the bikes buzzing around the fountains like hornets...
Groundhog Day
Empire Records
Independance Day
The Saint
Mission:Impossible (1 not 2)
Monty Python's The Holy Grail
Sunday, the Hi Def Network showed "Sunshine," a sort of Hungarian "Gone With the Wind." I printed out A. O. Scott's New York Times review to get more out of seeing this film for the third time. A very impressive film in the class with Visconti's "The Leopard" and Bertolucci's "1900."
Ah, I liked 1900 a lot too; have never seen the movie the Leopard, though I read the book twice. It's fairly short (to me) and the writing is ... lambent.
And now I have to go look up what lambent really means. I use it to say what, that a mood is sustained with the words falling in a particular way, not so as to startle with erudition or beauty, but that one looks back after a few pages to reread a paragraph for pleasure.
A case of a film being cinematically as good as the book (considering the difference of the medium). Burt Lancaster's finest performance and just reissued in a restored DVD.
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