kinuta Posted July 5, 2019 Report Share Posted July 5, 2019 5 hours ago, Brad said: Did you ever see the movie Hugo. That’s when I first became aware of Melies. There are some wonderful scenes where Ben Kingsley (playing Melies) explains how they made movies. Love Hugo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted July 5, 2019 Report Share Posted July 5, 2019 The Wedding Banquet - Ang Lee (1993) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted July 6, 2019 Report Share Posted July 6, 2019 On 7/4/2019 at 11:34 AM, medjuck said: No. But I do know Any Davis who directed the film of The Fugitive. I'm seeing him Saturday and I'll ask him if he did. Great! I have the eBook of The Double Take, which was the basis for 77 Sunset Strip. One day I'll get around to it. https://www.amazon.com/Double-Take-Roy-Huggins/dp/1627553681/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted July 6, 2019 Report Share Posted July 6, 2019 Eat Drink Man Woman - Ang Lee (1994) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted July 7, 2019 Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 On 7/6/2019 at 9:24 PM, GA Russell said: Great! I have the eBook of The Double Take, which was the basis for 77 Sunset Strip. One day I'll get around to it. https://www.amazon.com/Double-Take-Roy-Huggins/dp/1627553681/ Wow I didn't realize what a long prolific career he had. Andy Davis said he'd met with him before shooting the film and he was very gracious. After the film came out he wrote a very nice congratulatory letter to Andy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kinuta Posted July 7, 2019 Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 Nashville - Robert Altman (1975) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted July 7, 2019 Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 18 hours ago, medjuck said: Wow I didn't realize what a long prolific career he had. Andy Davis said he'd met with him before shooting the film and he was very gracious. After the film came out he wrote a very nice congratulatory letter to Andy. My first thought of Huggins is always as the creator of Maverick. I once saw him say that he had a love-hate relationship with James Garner. "I love him, and he hates me!" Thanks for asking your friend about him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 10 hours ago, JSngry said: For me, Bette Davis is an acquired taste, and I haven't acquired it yet! Too mannered in my opinion, very off-putting. Of course, YMMV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted July 8, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Matthew said: For me, Bette Davis is an acquired taste, and I haven't acquired it yet! Too mannered in my opinion, very off-putting. Of course, YMMV Well, here she's an old-ish widowed librarian in a small town who gets Red-Baited out of her gig and then quietly suffers the resultant indignity. And then this kid who used to love her burns down the town library because all those books she encouraged him to read drove him nuts, that and his asshole dad who is adamant that books are the tools of Commies. Not exactly a typical Bette Davis role and/or film, but not a particularly good one either. Not sure if there's a correlation there or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 One of the great films, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 (edited) Rocketman - Dexter Fletcher (2019) Messy kaleidoscope of high energy song and dance clips loosely connected by events from his life. Felt a bit Ken Russell like on occasion. Admired some of the film making but can't honestly say it was satisfactory. McCabe & Mrs Miller - Robert Altman (1971) Edited July 8, 2019 by kinuta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 52 minutes ago, kinuta said: Rocketman - Dexter Fletcher (2019) Messy kaleidoscope of high energy song and dance clips loosely connected by events from his life. Felt a bit Ken Russell like on occasion. Admired some of the film making but can't honestly say it was satisfactory. McCabe & Mrs Miller - Robert Altman (1971) McCabe & Mrs. Miller is an all time favorite. Leonard Cohen songs fit well. I was also underwhelmed by Rocketman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted July 9, 2019 Report Share Posted July 9, 2019 Interesting reaction to "Rocketman." I thought it was better than "Bohemian Rhapsody." I liked how they took the music out of its original chronological order and used the themes to tell the story, and I thought Egerton did a fine job singing. But, to each his own!! gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted July 9, 2019 Report Share Posted July 9, 2019 The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino (1978) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 Grand Prix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 42 minutes ago, Matthew said: Grand Prix Fabulous movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmitry Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 Watched the Broken Flowers again, first time after I saw it in the theater on its first run. Love Mulatu Astatke's music, but the film is pretentious, empty dreck, imho.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Matthew said: Grand Prix 41 minutes ago, Brad said: Fabulous movie. I thought I was the only that liked it! Never hear it mentioned anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Matthew said: I thought I was the only that liked it! Never hear it mentioned anymore. I saw it when it first came out. I used to be a Formula i racing fan at the time. I then saw it a few years ago when TCM was running their Days of Oscar and thought it was still great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesnik Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Brad said: I used to be a Formula i racing fan at the time. I used to be one too in my teens, in the seventies. First reaction when I saw this I thought it was that movie about that fateful season with the Lauda accident and the great Lauda Hunt rivalry, 1975 or 76 IIRC. And that movie I've seen, in TV some years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 I saw it at a preview screening at the Cinerama Theater in Toronto. It was shot in 70mm anamorphic which gave it almost the same aspect ratio as Cinerama and I think they did something optically to compensate for the curved screen. The main thing I remember about it is James Garner and a lot of split screen and multiple images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 4 hours ago, Matthew said: I thought I was the only that liked it! Never hear it mentioned anymore. My dad is a big fan of Grand Prix as well. I've never actually seen it, but he would always watch it whenever it turned up on our local TV stations in the 1970s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, medjuck said: I saw it at a preview screening at the Cinerama Theater in Toronto. It was shot in 70mm anamorphic which gave it almost the same aspect ratio as Cinerama and I think they did something optically to compensate for the curved screen. The main thing I remember about it is James Garner and a lot of split screen and multiple images. The split-screen and multi images thing started for me at Expo 67 at the Ontario Pavilion, with Christopher Chapman's "A Place To Stand". It's still impressive film making, I think. ...and a note about the music. It's by Dolores Claman, a deft composer of commercial jingles and film music, including the unofficial anthem Hockey Night In Canada. The orchestrations were by my friend Jerry Toth, a great musician and member of the Boss Brass, where he recorded this superb performance: Autumn In New York, arranged for Jerry by Rob McConnell. Edited July 10, 2019 by Ted O'Reilly addition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 John Wick 3 - Chad Stahelski (2019) Big breathless action extrazaganza with a meagre storyline but oodles of badass fighting. Never a dull moment when John Wick's in town. Enjoyed it, especially the dogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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