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| knox |
 Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:49 am |
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carrobin wrote: There's a difference. The Lipstick Killer was a threat to young women in unlocked apartments. But unless the politicians do something soon, the debt ceiling could affect everyone--and shake the rest of the world as well. The fact that they're sitting around complaining and bickering is worthy of a news report (but not a banner headline, true).
Agree. My joking aside, I always find those Killer Still at Large banners pretty hokey. There's a similar B movie media silliness where the tv news is devoting some improbable quantity of airtime to a small potatoes story. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:54 am |
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carrobin wrote: Last night I was watching "While the City Sleeps".... Good film....
One thing that struck me--there was a banner headline on the paper Price was holding, "Lipstick Killer Still at Large." Why would a newspaper run a banner head announcing that nothing new had happened?
Good film? I wouldn't say "good," though I would say "trashy and fun." Wasn't it directed by Fritz Lang?
Newspapers still run "killer at large" headlines to sell papers, don't they? Of course, there are very few papers to sell any more, but still...
P.S. Checked. Yes, directed by Lang. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:03 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Newspapers still run "killer at large" headlines to sell papers, don't they? Of course, there are very few papers to sell any more, but still...
Yes, but they don't run banners for that kind of "news." Banners are for movie newspapers. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 4:30 pm |
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Disconnect is about families talking past one another, cyber bullying, ID theft, teen porn, and an attraction between an adult female and a fifteen year old stud. All the minors are victims of one sort of another.
So what the hell am I watching this for? So I 'm glad I did. The pacing is like a foot race, relentlessly bunching the discrete groups of characters as they hurtle toward the finish. These are good people making lousy choices, all which turn out mostly ok. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:06 pm |
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| yambu...I forgot about the teen porn part. The actress, Andrea Riseborough has become one of my favorites. She played the reporter who interviewed the teen porn guy. She is such a camelion. I have seen her in Brighton Rock, Oblivion, W.E. and would see her in anything. That movie had some darn good actors. It took me awhile before I realized that the actor who played the chat room correspondent of Paula Patton's was Michael Nyquist who starred in the Danish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movies. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:47 pm |
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| This morning's best TCM movie was "The Devil's Own," up till the last twenty minutes or so. Joan Fontaine was a teacher who'd been traumatized by some kind of witch-doctor doings while teaching in Africa, recovering as a teacher in a pretty English village, which of course had a coven making mischief behind the postcard veneer. Alec McCowen, whom one sees too seldom on film, and his sister were the proprietors of the school. The plot moved along suspensefully--the mastermind behind the sinister happenings could have been almost anyone--but then it hit a bump and turned ridiculous. The climactic gathering was like a really bad imitation of "Thriller," and it seemed to me that Fontaine could have jumped in to save the sacrificial virgin well before it came to the point of seizing the knife (but of course, even the Tea Party Republicans know you have to wait till the last second of the last minute to keep the audience enthralled). A nice little Hammer flick that dropped off the cliff. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:12 pm |
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Car, I watched it too and it was silly, but I kept watching.
"...it seemed to me that Fontaine could have jumped in to save the sacrificial virgin well before it came to the point of seizing the knife..."
Yes indeed that was stretched out. And it was weird all along, and I wanted to find out what was going to happen (that's why I kept watching), and then the last section was nothing but silly! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:09 pm |
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| I remember seeing The Devil's Own when it first came out and liking it very much, but I was much younger then and probably more tolerant of silly plot lines. Still, I TiVo's it last night and will be watching. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 1:34 pm |
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Befade wrote: yambu...I forgot about the teen porn part. The actress, Andrea Riseborough has become one of my favorites. She played the reporter who interviewed the teen porn guy. She is such a camelion. I have seen her in Brighton Rock, Oblivion, W.E. and would see her in anything. That movie had some darn good actors. It took me awhile before I realized that the actor who played the chat room correspondent of Paula Patton's was Michael Nyquist who starred in the Danish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movies.
She is SWEDISH! Completely different! 
I wasn't big on Riseborough until saw her in "Disconnect." Very strong performance. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:43 pm |
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| Hey! The director was DANISH! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:39 pm |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:59 am |
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The Hatchet Man (1932) is weird, interesting, fun.
I always get a kick out of early Hollywood portrayals of Asia, and when the intro titles explain that San Francisco is the largest "colony" of Chinese outside China and "these 40,000 yellow people ..." I knew Hatchet Man wouldn't disappoint. Edward G is the titular character and it's kind of amusing how all the other characters put on a Chinese accent, but he doesn't even bother. Actually the younger generation are supposed to be modern so they talk and act like hip Americans of the day without a trace of accent.
Edward G is the tong enforcer tasked with killing his best friend, who leaves him all his worldly goods and his young daughter to Edward G who is supposed to marry her when she comes of age. And since she is Loretta Young with black bangs and some oriental eye makeup, it's a pretty good deal for Edward G. But after they marry she falls for a slick young Chinese mobster, and Edward G's downfall begins. It's fairly similar to those mid-40's Edward G films such as Scarlet Street and The Woman in the Window.
William Wellman directed Hachet Man and it has a nice elaborate oriental set design, some good scenes and editing and I was struck by the nice silent moments where Edward G pauses and reflects, reminding you that this is still early talkie days. Really a fun film, both as an odd artifact of its time and as a genuinely good interesting drama.
This was in Warner's Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 7 ... |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:20 am |
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| Edward G. Robinson had this thing is his early films where he would stop and silently brood. I haven't seen The Hatchet Man, but I noticed it in Five Star Final and Smart Money in particular. He looks like he has a bad taste in his mouth and is trying to figure out what it is. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:53 am |
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| I saw The Hatchet Man a few months ago and it was very engrossing. I was planning to see something else on the tv after 30 minutes of THM, but the movie had me. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:04 pm |
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| A pretty vicious little ending too. |
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