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| marantzo |
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| I saw The Lodger when I was a kid. It was one of our Friday night pictures. I remember liking it and finding it sort of scary. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:15 pm |
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| Whiskey....Billy has permission to correct me always....I need it. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:34 pm |
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Secretariat. I never believed for a minute that Diane Lane knew anything about horses. And she had the annoying habit of speaking in aphorisms. "If you're gonna bend down, then don't get your back up." I made that one up, but shit like that.
Malkovich was a hoot. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:26 am |
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The Japanese film "I Wish" (2011) is about two brothers aged 12 and 10 who are separated by their parents' divorce and passionately want to see each other and to see the family reunited. They make an elaborate plan to meet and to work, in their way, to bring about a family reunion. Exquisitely directed by Hirokazu Koreeda whose 2004 film "Nobody Knows" was one of my favorite films that year.
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:23 pm |
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I just watched Nobody Knows and found it stunning. Netflix streaming. A movie about abandoned children based on a true story. Never have child actors been so convincing. Tokyo is the setting so I segued to Lost in Translaton. Before these I read a favorite authors book about a young woman who solves mysteries and deals antiques in Tokyo called The Flower Master.
Thanks for the recommend, Ghulam. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:56 pm |
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You are welcome, Befade. His attention to sense of place is remarkable. Halfway through the movie you feel you have lived in that building for years and you know that street like the back of your hand.
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:54 pm |
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| We are well into a CBC series called Slings and Arrows, about a Shakespeare troupe that is forever skirting bankruptcy, but which produces a decent product despite itself and its gang of screwball actors, director and staff. It's so pleasant to relax with a well made entertainment that is at less than manic pace. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:34 pm |
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It's odd, but I really hated "A Voyage to the Moon" as presented on TCM. A lot of it was the narration, and maybe I was half-expecting it to be colored since I saw these costumes in Hugo. Also, there are a lot of people just running around in the early scenes, and the storytelling leaves a lot to be desired.
I still like The Great Train Robbery, though, even though it was made before most modern film techniques. For one thing, it has a coherent story to tell. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:14 pm |
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The Trip to the Moon was a mess, but it was 1902, and The Great Train Robbery was 1903 so it had a year more to straighten out the filming.  It did have a solid plot line, as Syd said. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:56 pm |
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| Now I'm going through the Edison shorts, a lot of which are only a minute or two long, although there's a film of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake which really brings the devastation home to you. A lot of these are pretty interesting as windows to my great-grandfather's time. I can understand how people flocked to see some of them, like the serpentine dancer. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:25 am |
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A Voyage to the Moon is okay, but it's maybe the silent movie most frequently run on t.v., at least for my generation. Music video shows like Night Flight used to play that thing over and over. And it's static and dull even though it's kinda trippy. I find the Man in the Moon genuinely repugnant. Works best with synthesizer music.
It was an exciting thing for me when the Edison Frankenstein was rediscovered. It's no classic, but it's of historical importance to a horror movie fanatic like me. Now if only the entire Homunculus could be rediscovered... |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 1:50 pm |
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I'd like to ask TCM why they put most of their classic silent films on in the middle of the night. I just saw a promo for "The Crowd" that looked very appealing, but then it gave the time--2 a.m. Tuesday. It's hard enough to stay awake for a movie with dialogue, much less one that requires keeping one's eyes on the screen constantly. (I fell asleep after the first ten minutes of "Orphans of the Storm" last week, dammit.)
I do love TCM on Saturday mornings, though, when they usually have B flicks from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. This morning there was a Nick Carter movie with Walter Pidgeon as Carter and Donald Meek as his comic-relief sidekick. George Sanders and his brother both played The Falcon in one of those series, and Sanders also was The Saint. Perfect Saturday morning entertainment, though Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple can't be beat. (Unfortunately there are only four of those.) |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:05 pm |
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| Probably they think the ratings will be significantly lower for silent movies. And probably they're right. So they figure no harm done, the obsessives who won't stay up will TiVo it. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:24 pm |
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The Crowd is a terrific film.
Can't you record these late night movies? |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:29 pm |
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gromit wrote: The Crowd is a terrific film.
Can't you record these late night movies?
I have a DVD recorder/player but never set it up after I moved to my current apartment and got a TV/DVD player combination. I may be able to ask a friend to get "The Crowd" for me, though.
The promo showed a clip from an interview with King Vidor explaining how he managed to get a remarkable shot--the camera seemingly pans up a tall building to the twentieth floor, finds a window, enters to show 200 men at desks, goes on to one man at one desk. It was shot with a model of the building lying flat, running the camera up to the right line of windows, then cutting to the interior of the room, with the camera moving along the ceiling. Ingenious. |
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