What Are You Watching

[Stompin at the Savoy]

Dalgliesh. This is one of the best British detective series in a long time.

[jlhoots]

We Were The Lucky Ones - HULU

[rostasi]

 

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Parish - season finale (Giancarlo Esposito)

[rostasi]

 

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The Veil - HULU

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Girls5Eva - Netflix

[Chuck Nessa]

About to work my way through the 27 episodes.

[mikeweil]

5 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

About to work my way through the 27 episodes.

Can you recommend it?

[jlhoots]

new season of Trying - Apple+

[Chuck Nessa]

3 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Can you recommend it?

You can watch an episode HERE>

[Teasing the Korean]

3 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Can you recommend it?

John Cassavetes and Elmer Bernstein.  What more do you need to know?

[medjuck]

4 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

John Cassavetes and Elmer Bernstein.  What more do you need to know?

The piano player whom Cassavetes replaces in the opening sequence is John 

Williams (I can't remember which John Williams)

[Jim Duckworth]

Not the kind of thing I usually watch, but it was strongly recommended by my older son.  I liked it quite a bit even though there are some (what I take to be) action movie cliches that I do not care for.

[mikeweil]

11 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

You can watch an episode HERE>

Thanks. Looks like a nice retro viewing session with all those jazz musicians on the set. I put it on my amazon wish list.

[Teasing the Korean]

21 hours ago, medjuck said:

The piano player whom Cassavetes replaces in the opening sequence is John 

Williams (I can't remember which John Williams)

It was the future film composer, who IIRC also appears in Peter Gunn during the scene's at Mother's.

 

[JSngry]

So, John Towner?

[Teasing the Korean]

42 minutes ago, JSngry said:

So, John Towner?

He dropped Towner at around 1957, so he was John - or Johnny - Williams by the time of Staccato.

[Ken Dryden]

A mediocre World War Il film with issues. One character announces himself on the radio as Major General Bradley while wearing a helmet with four stars. Later Eric Roberts plays a Navy lieutenant giving a rousing speech to his men while a fifty star American flag is in the background. I guess all the budget was spent on the computer-generated battle scenes.

[jlhoots]

Interview With The Vampire - season 2

[Referentzhunter]

[Teasing the Korean]

We are currently working our way through Criterion's Hollywood Crack-Up collection:

Hollywood Crack-Up: The Decade American Cinema Lost Its Mind

"What happened to America in the 1960s? Amid the stream of social upheavals, a wave of films emerged depicting mental illness, madness, extreme emotional states, and chilling violence—jarring transmissions from a new generation of Hollywood iconoclasts that seemed to evoke the very breakdown of the studio system itself..."

https://www.criterionchannel.com/hollywood-crack-up-the-decade-american-cinema-lost-its-mind

So far, we have watched Pressure Point (Hubert Cornfield), Targets (Peter Bogdanovich), and Pretty Poison (Noel Black).   Many of the others we have seen previously, but it has been years.  I think we will revisit John Frankenheimer's Seconds next.

[Ken Dryden]

On 5/25/2024 at 12:43 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

About to work my way through the 27 episodes.

I used to own that DVD set but I sold it. The writing went downhill as the series progressed and the musicians in the bar scenes tended to be more anonymous players than the early episodes. Perhaps the oddest change was the replacement of the opening sequence and theme music with a silly shot of a wide-eyed Johnny Staccato running around the empty streets and shooting his gun.  

Edited May 27 by Ken Dryden

[Teasing the Korean]

Mildly off-topic, but while we're talking about Staccato, I love this track from Elmer Bernstein's "soundtrack" album on Capitol.

 

[jlhoots]

Ripley - Netflix