What Are You Watching

[Chuck Nessa]

  On 5/25/2024 at 10:26 AM, mikeweil said:

Can you recommend it?

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You can watch an episode HERE>

[Teasing the Korean]

  On 5/25/2024 at 10:26 AM, mikeweil said:

Can you recommend it?

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

[medjuck]

  On 5/25/2024 at 1:58 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

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

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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]

  On 5/25/2024 at 1:47 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

You can watch an episode HERE>

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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]

  On 5/25/2024 at 6:03 PM, medjuck said:

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

Williams (I can't remember which John Williams)

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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]

  On 5/26/2024 at 3:41 PM, JSngry said:

So, John Towner?

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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 4:43 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

About to work my way through the 27 episodes.

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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, 2024 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

[jazzbo]

  On 5/28/2024 at 2:52 AM, jlhoots said:

Ripley - Netflix

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I enjoyed that one.

[Referentzhunter]

[ghost of miles]

Gunn, the 1967 movie. Apparently on the racy side of YouTube’s viewing standards.

Edited June 3, 2024 by ghost of miles

[JSngry]

  On 6/3/2024 at 1:24 AM, ghost of miles said:

Gunn, the 1967 movie. Apparently on the racy side of YouTube’s viewing standards.

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Did I just hear Plas Johnson on Varitone?!?!?!?

[soulpope]

  On 5/31/2024 at 3:03 PM, Referentzhunter said:

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As good as it gets ....

[Referentzhunter]

  On 6/3/2024 at 7:37 AM, soulpope said:

As good as it gets ....

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Fantastic ! The chemistry and the spontaneity.

Memorabel moment for me: The scene (the Psychiatrist) were he want to catch the girl (did't pay) and appears at the outside of the wrong window on a winterday in the evening, confronted with the psychiatrist again, falls backwards, leaving the psychiatrist completely baffled, shaking his head.

He has got it all under control !

If you have watched it as many times as i did (therapeutic basis) you discover how many times microphones/shadow appear in tv image. probably about 8-10 times over two seasons. Not that it bothers me one bit. 

[Dub Modal]

Dune 2

Despite the efforts of everyone involved the story is corny af and they can't save that. 

[jlhoots]

A Man In Full - Jeff Daniels (Netflix)

[soulpope]

  On 6/6/2024 at 3:35 AM, jlhoots said:

A Man In Full - Jeff Daniels (Netflix)

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👍👌 ....

[jlhoots]

Presumed Innocent - Apple+