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Started by PhantasticSanShiSan, September 26, 2008, 04:58:26 PM

ItsOver

Just watched "Vertigo" on TCM.  It's still tough to top Hitchcock, Stewart, and Novak.  What a classic.  Sorry, no CGI non-stop explosions or crazed zombies.  Just great writing, acting, directing, and filming.  Gee, what a concept.

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: ItsOver on September 05, 2013, 09:51:56 PM
Just watched "Vertigo" on TCM.  It's still tough to top Hitchcock, Stewart, and Novak.  What a classic.  Sorry, no CGI non-stop explosions or crazed zombies. Just great writing, acting, directing, and filming.  Gee, what a concept.

        Dude, that sounds so gay and boring and for college people. Bring on Fast and Furious 53...bitch!

ItsOver

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 05, 2013, 10:14:01 PM
        Dude, that sounds so gay and boring and for college people. Bring on Fast and Furious 53...bitch!

Sad but true, Eddie.  Is Vin Diesel one of the signs of the end times?  ;D :(

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: ItsOver on September 05, 2013, 10:18:40 PM
Sad but true, Eddie.  Is Vin Diesel one of the signs of the end times?  ;D :(

    My proudest achievement is never seeing any film by that mongoloid. I'd rather watch flesh eating viri descend upon my skin than see any "action" film.



aldousburbank

Quote from: onan on September 06, 2013, 02:45:15 AM
Just watched An American Astronaut...
you be the judge.
I enjoyed that this movie is not normal.

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: onan on September 06, 2013, 02:45:15 AM
Just watched An American Astronaut...


you be the judge.

         I watched that on Sundance Channel five years ago, I couldn't turn it off. Partially due to my being sick on the couch and lacking the energy to reach the controller, but I did find it compelling in a very bizarre way.

        But I enjoyed My Dinner With Andre, 200 Motels, Lisztomania, Forbidden Zone, Zardoz and the It's Alive trilogy, so my brain is probably broken.

       

Sardondi

Quote from: onan on September 06, 2013, 02:45:15 AMJust watched An American Astronaut...you be the judge.

What...the....hell?

Quote from: aldousburbank on September 06, 2013, 10:43:42 AMI enjoyed that this movie is not normal.
I don't know a thing about the movie, but watching it without context I too enjoyed the different emotions I had watching that delightfully weird scene. It was by turns bleak, fanciful, threatening, offbeat and funny.


UFQuack

Quote from: ItsOver on September 05, 2013, 10:18:40 PM
Is Vin Diesel one of the signs of the end times?  ;D :(

Vin Diesel did for movies what George Noory did for radio.

Sardondi

Quote from: UFQuack on September 06, 2013, 08:06:04 PMVin Diesel did for movies what George Noory did for radio.
Vin is following in the long Hollywood tradition of beefcake boys who are talentless actors, such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger (although of that trio of steroid abusers Arnold is clearly the most intelligent). Just think how bad those guys are as actors to make someone like Bruce Willis look like an actor with emotional depth by comparison.

CampsieNP

I recommend the movie we watched last night: Kon-Tiki.
Really beautiful visually with a terrific score and compelling story.

I read the book years ago, as have at least 50 million others. To see the story re-told with 21st century film-making technology, was a real treat.

b_dubb

I can't explain Vin Diesel's career. The only movie I've seen him in that I liked was Boiler Room. And Iron Giant. Ok I liked the Iron Giant

ItsOver

Quote from: Sardondi on September 07, 2013, 12:36:49 AM
Vin is following in the long Hollywood tradition of beefcake boys who are talentless actors, such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger (although of that trio of steroid abusers Arnold is clearly the most intelligent). Just think how bad those guys are as actors to make someone like Bruce Willis look like an actor with emotional depth by comparison.

Arnold as The Terminator showed more acting ability than Vin "I'm cool because I'm beefy, have a shaved head, and talk like I swallowed a can of Drano" Diesel has in any role.

Chine

Blackfish. Powerful and provocative documentary. Oscar buzz as a frontrunner. Not an easy film.

Chine

There are a handful of wonderful films I saw this year as I attended our film festival. Exhausted after day two. Film binging.

Two little summer gems:

The Spectacular Now and The Way, Way Back. (both of these, are beautifully composed by film composer, Rob Simonsen). Simonsen is also part of the Oscar winning team for Life of Pi. Brilliant artist.


The Way, Way Back is constructed beautifully in script. Authentic and present characters.

Blackfish, however, is my main baby. Like 'The Cove' (as I posted above).. difficult to stomach. Emotional endurance required for this one. Yet, a damn relevant film. I interviewed one of the former Sea World trainers, as I covered this film as press for our festival.





Last night I watched Apollo 18 on Netflix. I'll never get that hour and twenty five minutes back in my life again, so be forewarned. Also, can we have an end of 'found footage' movies? Please? It was old 5 minutes after The Blair Witch Project. I got sucked in because so many reviewers on Netflix said not to listen to the bad reviews. I should have listened to the bad reviews.


Chine

Recently I've pulled out my stash of classic films I love. Espionage films of the 70s. Marathon Man, Three Doors of the Condor (If you've seen Spy Games, do yourself a favor and see this. Especially for Redford's performance), Boys From Brazil and Bear Island.

French Connection is another. I love this genre. Also in books as well. Which I'm reading my second novel by Norwegian crime writer, Jo Nesbo. Started The Redbreast in his Harry Hole series. Just picked up Nemesis.

Tinfoil Hat

I just saw '42' about Jackie Robinson. One of the best newer films I've seen in a long time. Harrison Ford was magnificent as Branch Rickey.

aldousburbank

Just watched 8 Miles High, about Uschi Obermaier, the German brunette hottie that drove so many men crazy. Keef and Mick are respectably portrayed although probably a poor choice of adverbs there. The flick is streaming on Netflix. Thought it would suck but I liked it. Lots of TnA BTW, but not as a substitute for storyline. In Uschi's case a lack of nudity would have been a fictional work. One gets the feeling that a blind celibate gay monk would have sold his soul for a moment of Uschi, such was the allure.

sleeplessinca

Just saw Casino Royale and Being There.  A Peter Sellers party.

Sardondi

Quote from: Chine on September 14, 2013, 08:24:06 PM
Recently I've pulled out my stash of classic films I love. Espionage films of the 70s. Marathon Man, Three Doors of the Condor (If you've seen Spy Games, do yourself a favor and see this. Especially for Redford's performance), Boys From Brazil and Bear Island.

French Connection is another. I love this genre. Also in books as well. Which I'm reading my second novel by Norwegian crime writer, Jo Nesbo. Started The Redbreast in his Harry Hole series. Just picked up Nemesis.
Love 'em all, except Bear Island which I'm unfamiliar with. In fact I watched Marathon Man Friday night. (And I think you made a typo on Three Days Of The Condor. For me Max von Sydow and John Houseman turn an ordinary suspense/spy movie into a riveting classic. But I don't think Faye Dunaway adds a thing to Condor. I just don't like it when a movie star has so much cosmetic surgery. Compare her in Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, to Don Juan DeMarco, 1994: she actually looks better in the movie filmed 27 years later. That's creepy.

As for spy movies which are legitimate 110-minute theater releases, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, with Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner, and The Ipcress File along with the sequel Funeral In Berlin which launched Michale Caine, are my favorites.

The absolute pinnacle of pleasure in spy movies for me though are the two George Smiley TV mini-series: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People, starring Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson and a host of the cream of British stage and screen character actors. These two mini-series are the absolute epitome of the cerebral spy tale, with emphasis on the intellectual aspect of figuring out espionage connections rather than on violence and explosions. These two mini-series are what Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers are to WWII, what Lonesome Dove is to the frontier American West, what Roots is to American slavery. They're heavy with author John le Carre's' (David Cornwell) tremendous bias against anything American, as well as his loss of faith in the West; but if you can stomach the unrelenting depressive look at what le Carre' believed was the terminally shabby and spiritually shallow life that Westerners led, it is a superb piece of fiction. One thing these works do is they show the high emotional price that spies must pay for a lifetime of lying, even to their closest family members. Tremendous.

Buckaroo Banzai - Full
http://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/24511.html
or...............
BBANZAI

"The Third Man" Orson Wells, Joseph Cotton
"The Lady Killers" Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers (The Original)though the Coen Bros. remake was entertaining.
had a triple header tonight.

Sardondi

Quote from: Unquenchable Angst on September 15, 2013, 02:34:49 AM
Buckaroo Banzai - Full
http://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/24511.html
or...............
BBANZAI

"The Third Man" Orson Wells, Joseph Cotton
"The Lady Killers" Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers (The Original)though the Coen Bros. remake was entertaining.
had a triple header tonight.
How could I have overlooked The Third Man when talking about spy movies. That glorious bombed-out postwar feel of Vienna. I might have to put it at the top. And that reminds me of North By Northwest , which is probably my favorite movie, period (but for Rear Window!).

Renaldo

Quote from: b_dubb on September 07, 2013, 11:43:07 AM
I can't explain Vin Diesel's career. The only movie I've seen him in that I liked was Boiler Room. And Iron Giant. Ok I liked the Iron Giant

I can't explain it either, and those are the same two flicks I've not hated him in. I love the idea of Pitch Black and the Riddick movies, but can't really deal with them because it's Vin Diesel.

Just added The American Astronaut and Stingray Sam to my Netflix queue

Quote from: Sardondi on September 15, 2013, 01:34:29 AM

The absolute pinnacle of pleasure in spy movies for me though are the two George Smiley TV mini-series: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People, starring Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson and a host of the cream of British stage and screen character actors. These two mini-series are the absolute epitome of the cerebral spy tale, with emphasis on the intellectual aspect of figuring out espionage connections rather than on violence and explosions. These two mini-series are what Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers are to WWII, what Lonesome Dove is to the frontier American West, what Roots is to American slavery. They're heavy with author John le Carre's' (David Cornwell) tremendous bias against anything American, as well as his loss of faith in the West; but if you can stomach the unrelenting depressive look at what le Carre' believed was the terminally shabby and spiritually shallow life that Westerners led, it is a superb piece of fiction. One thing these works do is they show the high emotional price that spies must pay for a lifetime of lying, even to their closest family members. Tremendous.

This is probably my favorite mini series of all time. It's completely faithful to the book and, which as you say is unrelentingly depressive. Long time Alec Guiness fan here, also Ian Bannon and Ian Richardson. They were at their peak, superb. There is something careworn and yet incredibly sharp, carefully unweaving the threads of the mole while, at the same time, facing the contempt his wife's infidelity causes him to live with. "Love to Ann" so casual, so meaningful. I never bothered with the recent movie. I don't think it can compare. It took me a long time, but I finally hunted down that glorious piece of music that ended each episode. So perfect in all ways.

Quote from: Unquenchable Angst on September 15, 2013, 02:34:49 AM
"The Third Man" Orson Wells, Joseph Cotton

And, like the piece of music that caps Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy, that glorious score drives The Third Man. This is one of my favorite post-war movies with a point of view. Again, a trio of superbly talented actors in Trevor Howard, Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles. The black and white adds to the noir feel of the film, but the score kills it. I even remember there was a tv show with Michael Rennie in the early sixties, I believe, but nothing will ever beat the original. Another film I hope never gets remade.

Sardondi

Quote from: Unscreened Caller on September 15, 2013, 06:14:50 PM...Again, a trio of superbly talented actors in Trevor Howard, Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles. The black and white adds to the noir feel of the film, but the score kills it. I even remember there was a tv show with Michael Rennie in the early sixties, I believe, but nothing will ever beat the original. Another film I hope never gets remade.
And I always thought Alida Valli ("Anna Schmidt") one of the most breathtakingly beautiful women I've ever seen on a movie screen. For me her beauty equaled or surpassed everyone in film, even Garbo. And I saw her in that one movie and only that one. Stunning beauty.

Tinfoil Hat

Quote from: Unscreened Caller on September 15, 2013, 06:14:50 PM
This is probably my favorite mini series of all time. It's completely faithful to the book and, which as you say is unrelentingly depressive. Long time Alec Guiness fan here, also Ian Bannon and Ian Richardson. They were at their peak, superb. There is something careworn and yet incredibly sharp, carefully unweaving the threads of the mole while, at the same time, facing the contempt his wife's infidelity causes him to live with. "Love to Ann" so casual, so meaningful. I never bothered with the recent movie. I don't think it can compare.
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I'm a huge fan of Tinker, Tailor and Smiley's People. I remember watching them when first broadcast on PBS and I try to watch them at least once a year. I totally understand your thoughts on the recent remake and I wasn't sure I'd like it. I was very pleasantly surprised at how good it was. While not the original (who can compare to Alec Guinness?) it was very well done and stands up fine in its own right.

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