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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2023 19:33:47 GMT
The Great Beauty (2013)
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 17, 2023 22:17:40 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on May 18, 2023 1:33:24 GMT
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Post by Teleadm on May 18, 2023 5:48:58 GMT
Crazy Joe 1974 directed by Carlo Lizzani. An Italian-American co-production by Dino De Laurentiis. The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo. It has a very 1970's feeling over it, even in the earlier scenes that takes place in the early 1960's. This movie doesn't have the dimensions or dynamics of movies like the Godfather-saga and neither the budget or a director to handle this subject. Still it's not a bad movie and worth a glance, plus many New York scenes that could interest anyone who lived there in the early 1970's, and though there is violence it's not too violent. It has an interesting cast with Peter Boyle as Crazy Joe and Paula Prentiss as his moll, Boyle is a bit one-dimensional as Joe and one never really get to understand what makes him tick. Eli Wallach as a kind of Godfather, gives the best performance in the movie. Others include Fred Williamson (as a prison mate), Rip Torn, Charles Cioffi, Luther Adler and even Henry Winkler (making his movie debut).
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Post by Teleadm on May 19, 2023 5:13:47 GMT
Dan Dureya, John Payne, Shelley Winters and Joan Caulfield. Larceny 1948 directed by George Sherman. Rick Mason (John Payne) works with a gang of cons run by Silky (Duryea). The gang has two serious problems despite their successes. First, Silky's girl, Tory (Shelley Winters) is poison...and rather emotionally imbalanced. Secondly, Silky isn't exactly a rousing endorsement for sound mental health! Again and again, Tory chases after Rick and Rick rebuffs her...and time and time again, Silky assumes the worst. The gang's next caper involves a grieving war widow (Joan Caulfield). Rick pretends that he was good friends with the widow's husband during the war and he quickly ingratiates himself with her. The plan is to sell her on creating a giant memorial to her dead husband...and then pocket the money and run. The problem is that over time, Rick finds he's actually falling for her...which is complicated when the highly unstable Tory shows up...and Silky soon follows. A rather good little crime drama from Universal's B-unit, and rather well written too. While not exactly a nail-bitter thriller it managed to drag me into the plot and I wanted to know how it ends. Well acted by all, down to the small parts.
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Post by LeBeauSerge on May 19, 2023 18:07:34 GMT
La Haine (1995)
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Post by politicidal1 on May 19, 2023 23:58:18 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 20, 2023 13:59:27 GMT
The Producers (2005).
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Post by Nalkarj on May 20, 2023 14:35:16 GMT
A Little Night Music, 1977, dir. Hal Prince. This is as bad as its reputation suggests, but I had to see it because it’s adapted from one of my favorite musicals (of the same name, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler), which in turn is based on one of my favorite movies (Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night). All that, yet this adaptation is terrible. Hal Prince was a gifted theater director, but judging from this movie (his second and, tellingly, last), he had zero talent for filmmaking. This whole film is medium shots and atrocious lighting that makes everyone look sick. It’s not a good script, either, despite Hugh Wheeler adapting his libretto. Wheeler’s script for the show is lighter than the Bergman film, which ends happily, or at least bittersweetly, but suggests that comedy easily could have turned to high tragedy. But Sondheim’s music resupplies some of the darkness, along with a good amount of mysteriousness. This movie, though, cuts most of the darker songs: the gorgeous Night Waltzes, the sly “Remember?,” and the enigmatic “Perpetual Anticipation,” not to mention Petra’s class-conscious “The Miller’s Son.” It thus lacks an edge to balance out operettic sweetness, or even any sense that this story needs to be told. Only one scene works—Frederika’s “The Glamorous Life,” which Sondheim completely reworked and rewrote for this film. I always preferred the original “Glamorous Life” to this version, which seems to be a favorite of theater and cabaret singers. But the rewritten version works in the film, with its simple but sad subtext that Frederika is passing her childhood without her mother. (Incidentally, Chloe Franks’s performance as Frederika is one of the few performances that work in this. Len Cariou is good, but then he originated the role onstage. Diana Rigg is good as usual. Elizabeth Taylor’s performance is pretty terrible, but in her defense so is everything around her.) Watch Smiles of a Summer Night instead!
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Post by spiderwort on May 20, 2023 15:29:52 GMT
A Little Night Music, 1977, dir. Hal Prince.
I agree: Watch Smiles of a Summer Night instead!
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Post by Teleadm on May 20, 2023 18:18:56 GMT
A Little Night Music, 1977, dir. Hal Prince.
I agree: Watch Smiles of a Summer Night instead!
I second that! but spiderwort, now I remember, this was one of the movies I never watched to the end.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2023 20:23:14 GMT
Atlantics (2019)
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Post by politicidal1 on May 20, 2023 23:05:49 GMT
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Post by jeffersoncody on May 21, 2023 2:39:55 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on May 21, 2023 14:11:55 GMT
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