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| marantzo |
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Deep Throat was something I wasn't in the least interested in. For one thing, I don't really care for porn with men in it. Women having sex with each other is just about the only porn that I like. And there has to be only two women in it. Don't care for more than a two.  When it is just a couple, it is more realistic and sexually engrossing.
Of course I'm not restricted to that format. Some other well made story lines with men and women in it can be a turn on.
Real life is better though. Watching some well done porno with your girlfriend or wife is also better.  |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:34 am |
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Quote: I only saw Always once and I enjoyed it. It was interesting in a romantic/sci-fi (sort of, kinda) way...
Was there a sci-fi thing in "Always"? And I see it had my fellow Platte River area Nebraskan Marg Helgenberger. Was wondering how I missed it, then saw the date - we had a 3 year old and another on the way. We were missing a lot of movies. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:44 am |
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bartist wrote: Quote: I only saw Always once and I enjoyed it. It was interesting in a romantic/sci-fi (sort of, kinda) way...
Was there a sci-fi thing in "Always"? And I see it had my fellow Platte River area Nebraskan Marg Helgenberger. Was wondering how I missed it, then saw the date - we had a 3 year old and another on the way. We were missing a lot of movies.
It's a sort of ghost story where a dead pilot's spirit is sent back to earth to mentor a new pilot and help his wife get over his death. It would have been better if they'd just let John Goodman win her heart. He's better with Holly Hunter than the bland love interest. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:50 am |
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Syd wrote: bartist wrote: Quote: I only saw Always once and I enjoyed it. It was interesting in a romantic/sci-fi (sort of, kinda) way...
Was there a sci-fi thing in "Always"? And I see it had my fellow Platte River area Nebraskan Marg Helgenberger. Was wondering how I missed it, then saw the date - we had a 3 year old and another on the way. We were missing a lot of movies.
It's a sort of ghost story where a dead pilot's spirit is sent back to earth to mentor a new pilot and help his wife get over his death. It would have been better if they'd just let John Goodman win her heart. He's better with Holly Hunter than the bland love interest.
The "bland love interest" in this case was Richard Dreyfuss, who most people would never describe as "bland." The movie was a remake of a 1940s Spencer Tracy movie called A Guy Named Joe. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:17 am |
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Dreyfuss is about the only thing I remember about "Always," but now that you remind me, I did like John Goodman.
This morning I was switching around trying to get away from morning-show commercials and found "Baby Face" on TCM, which made me miss most of the news and weather. Barbara Stanwyck in 1932? as a smart blonde who seduces her way to the top--very much pre-Code. I'm pretty sure it was films like that that brought the Code into being. (It was the men, not the wicked woman, who shot each other and themselves--she always came out with the diamond bracelets, at least until the hopefully moral ending.) |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:37 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Syd wrote: bartist wrote: Quote: I only saw Always once and I enjoyed it. It was interesting in a romantic/sci-fi (sort of, kinda) way...
Was there a sci-fi thing in "Always"? And I see it had my fellow Platte River area Nebraskan Marg Helgenberger. Was wondering how I missed it, then saw the date - we had a 3 year old and another on the way. We were missing a lot of movies.
It's a sort of ghost story where a dead pilot's spirit is sent back to earth to mentor a new pilot and help his wife get over his death. It would have been better if they'd just let John Goodman win her heart. He's better with Holly Hunter than the bland love interest.
The "bland love interest" in this case was Richard Dreyfuss, who most people would never describe as "bland." The movie was a remake of a 1940s Spencer Tracy movie called A Guy Named Joe.
The bland love interest I was referring to was Brad Johnson. That's the closest he's ever had to a major film credit. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:19 pm |
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Ghost story, Gary.
Not sci-fi.
You've done irreparable harm to the term "sci-fi" with your loose talk!
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:05 am |
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| The German film "Lore" (2012) shows a 14 year old girl taking her three younger brothers and one sister across the country left brutalized and dehumanized after German defeat in WWII, and under the occupation of the U.S., U.K. and USSR. Their Nazi parents have been jailed and the children have to take a long trek to their grandmother's home. They go through some harrowing experiences on the way. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:41 am |
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Downstairs is a fine 1932 John Gilbert vehicle. Usually I'm not terribly fond of older class dramas, but this one has some nice verve to it. The early part of the film has almost a Renoir vibe to it, breezily introducing characters and adding in some nice daily life touches and keeping things moving right along.
It opens with a wedding, and quickly we learn that it's two servants marrying, but being given basically family treatment by the Baron. Soon, the bride is asked to stomp some grapes in her wedding dress for luck (hers? the wine's? the peasants who get to check out her gams?). Meanwhile a new chauffeur, Gilbert, arrives and immediately starts hitting on a female servant. Soon enough he's working on securing the life savings of one chubby cook smitten with him, moving on the newlywed maid, and has gained info to blackmail the baroness (a weak link Hedda Hopper). Enjoyable film. Gilbert seems to enjoy playing a charming rascal, in a story which he wrote.
One thing odd is that the wiki entry for the film gets so many plot points wrong, it's embarrassing. It's almost as if they saw a different movie than I did, or more likely didn't understand the one they saw. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:14 pm |
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"Arbitrage" is a fine 2012 Richard Gere vehicle.
The plot is basically a rich guy gets in trouble and tries to cover it up. The film goes a direction that is ambiguous at the end, and perhaps unsatisfying to some, but I think the choices kept it fairly real. Pretty taut, clocks under two hours, and Gere managed to rein in that blinking spasm thing he does and give a convincing Wall St. lion who is happiest when he's dealing and dickering. |
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Black Girl: early (1966) film from Senegal about a Senegalese woman who is hired as a governess by a French family. Things are fine while they're in Dakar, but when she goes with them to France, she discovers that she is to serve as a maid as well as a governess and things deteriorate from there. The scenes in Dakar are striking but I grew impatient with the film once it got to France and she becomes more of a victim. Mbissine Thérèse Diop is attractive when she has her headdress on. There's a scene at the end in which a kid dons a traditional mask that is very effective.
The film is only an hour long but seems much longer, and was made on a low budget by Western standards. Oddly, I was reminded of "Chan is Missing," a very good film that was made on a tiny budget and played a major role in putting Asian-American film on the map. This played a similar role for bringing African film to international attention. (6 of 10)
Note: The director, Ousmane Sembène, has made a lot of award-nominated films, including "Xala" and "Moolaadé." I recorded "Xala" off TCM, so I'll probably watch it at some point. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 10:19 am |
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Quote: Mbissine Thérèse Diop....
I believe there are no other actresses in SAG with the same name. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:13 am |
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Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 6 is one of the weaker issues.
Downstairs is a pretty good class film, with John Gilbert as a rake who disturbs a happy provincial mansion.
Mandalay tries to be exotic and racy, but it's hard to see why all these men are falling all over themselves for Kay Francis who looks rather maternal. She also is in almost silent acting mode with very little effort at subtlety.
The story itself is duller than it thinks it is, and the ending is ludicrous.
Massacre is one of those odd films where any white person can play an Indian with a little spray tan. Ann Dvorak wins the award as Least Likely Indian, made up to look like a gypsy, though Richard Barthlemess' lead is a lot like Cagney playing an Indian. He's supposed to have been off the reservation for a decade plus and lost connection the tribe, but still he seems more straight out of a tough guy crime film. There are some good supporting roles, notably Dudley Digges, who is great in these small bad-guy roles, and Sidney Toler. A weird film, notable for being on the side of the Injuns v. the corrupt officials. Though the bad guys are balanced by good guy fed reformers.
The Wet Parade is another odd film on both sides of an issue. It mostly plays as a Prohibition film, showing the evils of drink, but then goes on to show that Prohibition just isn't the answer either. Two families face ruin form drink, but the blue-nosers are kind of bland do-gooders. So, to balance their boringness, Jimmy Durante turns up in the final act as a Fed agent. He hams it up, goes to a speakeasy disguised as a Bulgarian diplomat, leading the subsequent raid. A somewhat messy film which stumbles around, but never completely falls down -- directed by Michael Curtiz.
I think that makes it Vol.4 & Vol. 6 as the weak links.
I think some of the highlights of the Forbidden Hollywood sets:
Baby Face -- Vol. 1
Red-Headed Woman - Vol. 1
Ladies They Talk About - Vol. 5
Hatchet Man -- Vol. 7
Other good films: Wild Boys of the Road (Vol. 3), Downstairs (Vol. 6),
Volume 3 is very solid. I don't think I've seen Vol. 2. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:33 am |
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| I must admit, if I was a 30s director looking for someone to play an Indian, Ann Dvorak would not be the first name to pop into my head. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:20 pm |
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Berlin Alexanderplatz is great for so many reasons. Franz is Shakesperean in his flawed humanity. He's released from jail for having killed a woman. Now desperately poor in the Weimer days, he goes from scheme to scheme, woman to woman, from Fascism to Communism, and nothing works, because he doesn't understand his choices.
The thing that astounded me right away was the tracking of one of the early scenes. It was a busy market area, filmed from a circle inside it, but with offshoots, like a railroad roundhouse. He had three or four close sets of people or vehicles going every which way.
Over sixteen hours, Franz descends into madness. Whether he has the inner grace to redeem himself, you'll have to see.
But I have to admit, a lot of the slow pacing took forever 
Has anyone read the Doblin book? Some say that Doblin is right up there with Joyce in describing a city in its infinite, living detail. All of us non-German speakers will never know for ourselves. |
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