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Post by toshtego on Sept 26, 2023 10:19:14 GMT -5
Bear Island, 1979. With Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee. A thriller with Nazis, submarines and snow. Not filmed on the island which is the main reason I watched it. Filmed in Alaska and British Columbia. From the Alistair MacLean book. Some great radical skiing scenes.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 28, 2023 11:46:58 GMT -5
"It Came From Outer Space", a mid 1950s take on ETs visiting Earth and trying to keep their distance. Nicely made and well acted. Barbara Rush does a fine job depicting possession by ETs. Much of it was filmed in the Mojave Desert which is always interesting.
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 28, 2023 12:42:28 GMT -5
SORCERER. 1977 remake of the 1953 original. With Roy Schneider in the Yves Montand role. I didn’t envy the crew that shot it. What a grind.The film itself is gritty and there is no happy ending.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 30, 2023 15:29:17 GMT -5
"And Then There Were None", 1945. Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, and assorted veterans of the era. Great atmospheric mystery set on an island in the Irish Sea.
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 30, 2023 16:48:35 GMT -5
Watched IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A 1967 film that holds up well today. Steiger and Poitier give wonderful performances. (I think Steiger walked away with it— and was duly awarded for it.) The nuances of 1960s Mississippi were very well done I thought.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 30, 2023 18:19:18 GMT -5
Watched IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A 1967 film that holds up well today. Steiger and Poitier give wonderful performances. (I think Steiger walked away with it— and was duly awarded for it.) The nuances of 1960s Mississippi were very well done I thought. Yes, this movie is excellent and holds up well. The slap heard across the nation, eh? Steiger was excellent.
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 30, 2023 18:42:03 GMT -5
When Mirisch sent the script to Poitier, to convince him to take the role, it did not contain the counter-slap. Poitier took the role on the condition of the slap and that it had to be in the picture’s final released cut. Mirisch, who was not a racist, was unsure of the effect it would have on the film’s acceptance but agreed. The rest is history.
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Post by urbino on Sept 30, 2023 19:57:41 GMT -5
When Mirisch sent the script to Poitier, to convince him to take the role, it did not contain the counter-slap. Poitier took the role on the condition of the slap and that it had to be in the picture’s final released cut. Mirisch, who was not a racist, was unsure of the effect it would have on the film’s acceptance but agreed. The rest is history. His reaction was a bit like Chief Gillespie's, then. "Well I don't know."
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 30, 2023 21:58:20 GMT -5
Norman Jewison was first-rate director. When he made HOTN he was just off THE CINCINNATI KID and THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIAN ARE COMING. After HOTN he would go on to THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
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Post by urbino on Sept 30, 2023 22:20:26 GMT -5
Norman Jewison was first-rate director. When he made HOTN he was just off THE CINCINNATI KID and THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIAN ARE COMING. After HOTN he would go on to THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. TCK has one of the great sad lines in all of moviedom, delivered so casually you don't know it devastated you till it's still in your ears, days later: "I've been everywhere I'm going, Kid."
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 30, 2023 22:43:19 GMT -5
Watched IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A 1967 film that holds up well today. Steiger and Poitier give wonderful performances. (I think Steiger walked away with it— and was duly awarded for it.) The nuances of 1960s Mississippi were very well done I thought. I was in Mississippi in 67. Very little nuance. Blatent is more like it. That thin layer of southern civility is easy to see through. It was worse than Birmingham. I swore to never stop in Mississippi for any reason.
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Post by urbino on Sept 30, 2023 23:49:55 GMT -5
Watched IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A 1967 film that holds up well today. Steiger and Poitier give wonderful performances. (I think Steiger walked away with it— and was duly awarded for it.) The nuances of 1960s Mississippi were very well done I thought. I was in Mississippi in 67. Very little nuance. Blatent is more like it. That thin layer of southern civility is easy to see through. It was worse than Birmingham. I swore to never stop in Mississippi for any reason. Nina said it best.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 1, 2023 8:41:57 GMT -5
You guys are pikers. I was THERE during the Meredith riots at Ole Miss in ‘62.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 1, 2023 10:37:44 GMT -5
Watched THE WAR (1994). Kevin Costner and a 12YO Elijah Wood. I was a little surprised to see this film was after not before DANCES. Also set in Mississippi. Although directed by Avner it has the characteristic tear-jerker manipulations of Costner. Really remarkable performance by Wood. Kinda forced but worth watching, if only for Wood’s performance.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 1, 2023 12:06:52 GMT -5
Netflix has a movie called Reptile with Del Toro and some other fine actor, really good Detective flick, pay close attention it’s complicated!
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Post by toshtego on Oct 1, 2023 12:52:50 GMT -5
Netflix has a movie called Reptile with Del Toro and some other fine actor, really good Detective flick, pay close attention it’s complicated! I will look for this one. He is a good actor and under appreciated it seems.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 1, 2023 15:33:53 GMT -5
You guys are pikers. I was THERE during the Meredith riots at Ole Miss in ‘62. And?
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 1, 2023 15:57:00 GMT -5
But?
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Post by urbino on Oct 1, 2023 16:08:56 GMT -5
🎶and "or" will take you very far
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 1, 2023 18:49:57 GMT -5
Unless.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 3, 2023 10:04:30 GMT -5
SALVADOR (1986). Gritty, bloody account of repression and revolution by Oliver Stone, writer and director. James Woods gives a fine performance as a down-at-the-heels photojournalist. Good cast includes John Savage as Wood’s colleague. Both, unfortunately, are unconvincing as pro photogs. Woods in particular is totally inept. He’s always out of position and never “gets the shot”— he tries to fix a balky camera by banging it repeatedly against a stone wall! No happy endings here.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 3, 2023 14:34:37 GMT -5
Watched "Quatermas II" last night and this morning. Great old Sci-Fi from Britain in the late 1950s. Brian Donleavy as Professor Quatermas. In this one, alien plant beings from Space take over a synthetic food experimental plant near Carlisle in the north of England. They look like a manure pile on feet but that is part of the fun.
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Post by Baboo on Oct 3, 2023 15:41:25 GMT -5
Whale - poignant, well made, executed, and cast.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 6, 2023 10:30:33 GMT -5
The Cosmic Man, 1958.
Better than I expected. Some interesting science talk about gravity and the morality of power. Alien played by John Carradine. Bruce Bennett is the scientist hero. For me, an underappreciated actor. If you recall, he was one of the crew in Lulabelle. That was Bogie's tank in "Sahara". There is a corny element as in all of these old sci-fi flicks from the '50s. I get past that considering it was what I watched as a kid.
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Post by don on Oct 6, 2023 23:48:23 GMT -5
The Mule. Clint Eastwood. A very good movie.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 7, 2023 10:39:41 GMT -5
"The 27th Day", 1957. Arnold Moss made a great alien visitor. That voice of his was majestic. With George Voskovec (12 Angry Men) and Friedrich von Ledeber (Queequeg in Moby Dick). Stefan Schnabel makes a great Soviet Marshal bad guy.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 15, 2023 14:53:36 GMT -5
Watched the very dumb but funny Saturday the 14th on Saturday. It's MY tradition.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 15, 2023 18:39:48 GMT -5
My movie watching will be limited since DVD.COM went belly-up. I’ve checked out the current alternatives and none of them come close to what it provided.
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Post by urbino on Oct 15, 2023 20:15:38 GMT -5
That's a shame, Bob. Hope something better turns up.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 16, 2023 17:53:42 GMT -5
My movie watching will be limited since DVD.COM went belly-up. I’ve checked out the current alternatives and none of them come close to what it provided. I take it you do not stream movies?
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