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| Marilyn |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:00 pm |
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| I'm so glad these big tough guys are getting all this attention. But then, this shit does belong behind the curtain. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:10 pm |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:52 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: Bandwagon mentality does sicken me and it happens a LOT in here. To deny it is extraordinarily hypocritical.
I agree. 
(sorry.. couldn't resist - just trying to inject some humor here) |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:01 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I see TCM' double bill tonight is The Cat People and I Walked With A Zombie. I saw this double bill in the theatre around 1952. I guess they always play as a Jacques Tourneur quinella.
Wonder what the occasion is? No full moon tonight. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:06 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: marantzo wrote: I see TCM' double bill tonight is The Cat People and I Walked With A Zombie. I saw this double bill in the theatre around 1952. I guess they always play as a Jacques Tourneur quinella.
Wonder what the occasion is? No full moon tonight. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:08 pm |
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In fact, there are two straight days of Lewton features:
Monday, Jan. 14
5:00PM Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton: The Man In the Shadows.
6:30PM Cat People (1942), starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith and Tom Conway.
7:45PM I Walked with a Zombie (1943), starring Frances Dee and Tom Conway.
9:00PM Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton: The Man In the Shadows.
10:30PM The Leopard Man (1943), starring Dennis O’Keefe and Margo.
11:45PM The Seventh Victim (1943), starring Kim Hunter, Tom Conway and Hugh Beaumont.
1:00AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944), starring Simone Simon and Kent Smith.
2:15AM The Body Snatcher (1945), starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Henry Daniell.
3:30AM Isle of the Dead (1945), starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew and Marc Cramer.
4:45AM Bedlam (1946), starring Boris Karloff, Anna Lee and Ian Wolfe.
Tuesday, Jan. 15
6:15AM Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton: The Man In the Shadows.
7:45AM Youth Runs Wild (1944), starring Kent Smith, Bonita Granville, Jean Brooks and Glenn Vernon.
9:00AM Mademoiselle Fifi (1944), starring Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger and Alan Napier.
Rod (and maybe I) will be part of a Val Lewton blogathon. Look for Rod's review of Isle of the Dead tomorrow afternoon on my site. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:26 pm |
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Quote: "Joe Vitus"Wait a minute, there's a call for banning and I'm not leading the pack? What has the forum come to?????
OK, let's ban Joe, just on general principles. Wouldn't want him to feel left out.  |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:03 pm |
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I've only seen three of the Lewtons. The Leopard Man is an excellent movie and nicely chilling. The Cat People and The Body Snatchers are fine, too. [If you haven't seen it, this last has nothing to do with pod people; it's based on the Robert Louis Stevenson story about killing people to provide cadavers for medical dissection.]
There's a Lewton-influenced movie called Curse of the Demon which was done by one of his former directors and of the same quality as the others. Check it out if you haven't seen it.
Stephen King had a good discussion as to why the Lewton films work so well in Danse Macabre. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:47 pm |
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Syd wrote: I've only seen three of the Lewtons. The Leopard Man is an excellent movie and nicely chilling. The Cat People and The Body Snatchers are fine, too. [If you haven't seen it, this last has nothing to do with pod people; it's based on the Robert Louis Stevenson story about killing people to provide cadavers for medical dissection.]
There's a Lewton-influenced movie called Curse of the Demon which was done by one of his former directors and of the same quality as the others. Check it out if you haven't seen it.
Stephen King had a good discussion as to why the Lewton films work so well in Danse Macabre.
No Country for Old Men has a long sequence (one of the best things in the movie) which is undeniably influenced by Lewton. |
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| Joe Vitus |
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Nancy wrote: Quote: "Joe Vitus"Wait a minute, there's a call for banning and I'm not leading the pack? What has the forum come to?????
OK, let's ban Joe, just on general principles. Wouldn't want him to feel left out.
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| Nancy |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Nancy wrote: Quote: "Joe Vitus"Wait a minute, there's a call for banning and I'm not leading the pack? What has the forum come to?????
OK, let's ban Joe, just on general principles. Wouldn't want him to feel left out.
Whew!
You're welcome. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:47 am |
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Good lord what a storm in a teacup. I'm only guilty of poor exposition (admittedly a fault I take exception to myself) in a late-night post, when what I was trying to say was, "an intelligent film does not need to treat its audience like morons and shove the point down their throats". High and Low is a miracle of social observation and philosophical discourse as well as cinematic construction expostulated through the structure of a solid policier. Apologies, Gromit, as you obviously mistook me.
Nice to see the usual greasy shits lining up to take a whack in instantaneously thinking the worse of me. Keep it coming, lads.
Criticism is a waste of time and energy. I'm qutting it altogether. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:14 am |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:52 am |
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Rod wrote:
Nice to see the usual greasy shits lining up to take a whack in instantaneously thinking the worse of me. Keep it coming, lads.
Right.
Lorne? |
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