Return Of The Film Corner Thread

[fasstrack]

He wished that he were a fish: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+incredible+mr.+limpet&safe=off&biw=1280&bih=702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj4ydyH5d3OAhUHLB4KHQHrCrYQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=wS077VsqaqTKTM%3A

[kinuta]

Spike Lee double bill.

Malcolm X (1992)

He Got Game (1998)

[Jazzmoose]

Top notch WB gangster stuff, but how could they go wrong with Cagney and Raft in the same film?

[BillF]

Released in the UK today and seen this afternoon. A disappointment - melodramatic, as to be expected with Almodovar, but this time straight-faced without the camp humour that makes his often banal stuff tolerable.

[jlhoots]

Hell Or High Water

[kinuta]

Billy Wilder double bill.

Sabrina (1954)

The Apartment (1960)

[kinuta]

Ang Lee double bill.

The Ice Storm (1997)

His best film imho.

Life Of Pi (2012)

 

Visually and technically amazing.

[Jazzmoose]

23 hours ago, kinuta said:

That's got to be the dopiest cover for a DVD/Blue Ray I've ever seen.  Makes it look like a film version of Three's Company...

[jlhoots]

Don't Think Twice

[kinuta]

2 hours ago, Jazzmoose said:

That's got to be the dopiest cover for a DVD/Blue Ray I've ever seen.  Makes it look like a film version of Three's Company...

Indeed. It also adds to the myth that it's a comedy.

[kinuta]

Robert Rossen double bill.

All The King's Men (1949)

Body And Soul (1947)

 

Edited August 28, 2016 by kinuta

[kinuta]

Our Kind Of Stranger - Susanna White (2016)

Involving and well done.  Good but not great.

Stellan Skarsgard a standout as the Russian.

[duaneiac]

A good movie, although Donald Sutherland is miscast.  Why is it most British actors can adopt an American accent (even geographically specific accents) with seeming ease, yet American actors so often fail miserably when attempting any semblance of a "British" accent?  Most of the film deals with how the robbery will be done, as the thieves have to acquire copies of four keys which will unlock the two safes carrying a gold shipment on the train.  Sean Connery is to be given credit because he actually did some of his own stunt work on the top of a moving train -- something you could never pay me enough money to do!

Correction:  Sean Connery apparently did all of his own stunt work on top of the moving train.  I listened to the commentary track by Michael Crichton and he said they built the train with extra wide roofs and with a sand-papery like skid-resistant surface.  Still, there was one point where Mr. Connery fell down on the roof and Mr. Crichton, viewing from his chair inside the train, wasn't sure if it was an acting choice or a real slip.  It was a real, and potentially dangerous, slip.

Edited August 29, 2016 by duaneiac

[BillF]

[jlhoots]

Little Men

[fasstrack]

17 hours ago, BillF said:

 Penelope again? Ooh lah lah...

[BillF]

1 hour ago, fasstrack said:

 Penelope again? Ooh lah lah...

Yes, but they get rid of her 2/3 way through. Saving on the budget? 

[fasstrack]

4 hours ago, BillF said:

Yes, but they get rid of her 2/3 way through. Saving on the budget? 

Spoiler alert. ...

[kinuta]

Douglas Sirk double bill.

Written On The Wind (1956)

 Fascinating, gaudy, wildly over the top melodrama. Brilliantly directed, kitch masterpiece.

Robert Stack teeters on self parody, Dorothy Malone the ultimate sleazy bad girl.

All I Desire (1953)

[jlhoots]

Equity - Anna Gunn

[fasstrack]

Gets me every time...

[kinuta]

Sam Mendes double bill.

American Beauty (1999)

Jarhead (2005)

[Jazzmoose]

On 8/29/2016 at 10:12 PM, duaneiac said:

  Why is it most British actors can adopt an American accent (even geographically specific accents) with seeming ease, yet American actors so often fail miserably when attempting any semblance of a "British" accent?

Amen.  Last one I heard was Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven.  I immediately wrote an apology note to Dick Van Dyke. On the other hand, I remember watching the Waldorf Salad episode of Fawlty Towers and getting totally confused when the actor "mispronounced" one word and suddenly became British, right before my eyes.  But what an accent!

[A Lark Ascending]

On 8/29/2016 at 4:09 AM, kinuta said:

Our Kind Of Stranger - Susanna White (2016)

Involving and well done.  Good but not great.

My response too when I saw it in the cinema a while back. 

[BillF]

1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said:

My response too when I saw it in the cinema a while back. 

I'll back those comments.

On 8/29/2016 at 6:12 AM, duaneiac said:

 

Why is it most British actors can adopt an American accent (even geographically specific accents) with seeming ease, yet American actors so often fail miserably when attempting any semblance of a "British" accent?  

I'm not sure that this is true, but if it is, couldn't it be something to do with the amount of exposure we get in Britain to American media, in contrast to the rarity of British media in the US?