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Post by Pippen on Apr 3, 2023 20:45:36 GMT
It is on HBO Max ..it is worth getting the free trial if only for watching this gem !
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Post by Pippen on Apr 3, 2023 21:19:44 GMT
a catch up from the weekend - two I had never even heard of but really enjoyed ! and Without Love
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Post by Teleadm on Apr 4, 2023 16:36:59 GMT
The Magic Christian 1969 A movie I've been curious about, now I've seen it and I wish I hadn't.
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 4, 2023 22:23:58 GMT
I was having Pulp Fiction on today while working
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Post by Pippen on Apr 4, 2023 22:29:40 GMT
The Long Voyage Home ... lots of John Ford regulars (minus a couple) and Mildred Natwick's first movie !
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 5, 2023 4:35:19 GMT
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Post by Pippen on Apr 5, 2023 4:37:42 GMT
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Post by Teleadm on Apr 5, 2023 5:15:42 GMT
Steve Cochran, Doris Day and Ginger Rogers in Storm Warning 1951
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 5, 2023 5:16:55 GMT
Both of these are Norma Shearer, in A Lady of Chance (1928). You'll have to watch the movie to get the significance of these 2 pics being posted together, lol.
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 5, 2023 8:13:25 GMT
ANGEL HEART (a tawdry guilty pleasure)
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 5, 2023 22:36:48 GMT
INSIDE THE WALLS OF FOLSOM PRISON (1951). My Rating: 7 out of 10. Recommended.
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Post by politicidal1 on Apr 5, 2023 23:44:29 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 6, 2023 2:41:57 GMT
Fedora (1978) Until today, I'd seen every feature Billy Wilder directed after emigrating to the US...save one: his penultimate film. With a Tom Tryon story as a basis, Wilder and co-writer I.A.L. Diamond crafted an atmospheric, location-shot film with an intriguing premise. Down-on-his-luck indie producer William Holden has a script with which he seeks to lure enigmatic and reclusive film star Fedora from retirement, and finds himself drawn into decades-old mysteries he becomes determined to unravel (not the least of which is how a woman pushing 70 appears to be half her age). Parallels to Wilder's Sunset Blvd are inevitable. Holden's Barry "Dutch" Detweiler could very well be the man that SB's Joe Gillis might have become (had he survived). Even two or three lines of dialogue echo some from SB, and Wilder lures the viewer in with his customary sharp and cynical sense of humor, much of it in the form of Holden's voice-over narration. Unfortunately, Wilder and Diamond allow the premise to lose steam just after the film's halfway point with a static, dialogue-heavy sequence in which all is revealed, and has nowhere to go for the remaining three-quarters of an hour or so but to reconstruct in flashback everything viewers have just been told. And sad to say, Marthe Keller, who briefly became very hot in the mid/late-'70s, is not nearly up to the task of portraying the mysterious woman at the center of the story. Not a bad film, but one that begins with some promise and then squanders its possibilities.
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Post by Teleadm on Apr 6, 2023 5:03:16 GMT
Ricky Schroder and William Holden in The Earthling 1980. The copy I watched had beautiful colors, unlike this bleak pic.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 6, 2023 5:55:46 GMT
Ricky Schroder and William Holden in The Earthling 1980. The copy I watched had beautiful colors, unlike this bleak pic. Interesting coincidence: we've both just seen films from the final years of Holden's career. I know: tomorrow, let's both watch S.O.B., his last film. On second thought, let's not. Two brief stories: in 1980, I was on the MGM lot for a job interview while S.O.B. was shooting there. Seeing Richard Mulligan coming out of the commissary, I was surprised at how pale and pasty his makeup looked. It wasn't until I saw the film the following year that I realized he'd been made up to play a corpse. Later in '81, a friend with whom I worked there (yeah, I got the job) told me he'd been just behind Holden in the checkout line at The Liquor Barn on San Vicente Blvd the night before. When the news broke a day or so later that the likely drunk actor had tripped over a rug and bled out after splitting his head open on a piece of furniture, my friend remarked, "And I watched him buying the fatal bottle of booze."
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