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Post by Mercy for All on Dec 10, 2021 17:37:38 GMT
Local PBS station currently airing the wonderful 1980's comedy of errors, "A Fish Called Wanda", starring Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Michael Palin, and Kevin Kline. Good movie. Didn't meet my expectations, which were through the roof based on reviews and publicity. |
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Post by Odysseus on Dec 10, 2021 17:47:31 GMT
Local PBS station currently airing the wonderful 1980's comedy of errors, "A Fish Called Wanda", starring Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Michael Palin, and Kevin Kline. Good movie. Didn't meet my expectations, which were through the roof based on reviews and publicity.
I don't recall reading many if any reviews of A Fish Called Wanda. Rather, it was recommended to me by some Monty Python fan friends. I regard Palin's performance as stupendous. After all, it cannot be easy to portray, sympathetically, someone with such a debilitating stutter. And of course the rest of the cast is top-notch, especially Kline. Sheer genius.
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Post by Mercy for All on Dec 10, 2021 18:45:20 GMT
Good movie. Didn't meet my expectations, which were through the roof based on reviews and publicity.
I don't recall reading many if any reviews of A Fish Called Wanda. Rather, it was recommended to me by some Monty Python fan friends. I regard Palin's performance as stupendous. After all, it cannot be easy to portray, sympathetically, someone with such a debilitating stutter. And of course the rest of the cast is top-notch, especially Kline. Sheer genius.
Yeah, it's a problem of expectations. People told me Dumb and Dumber was "the funniest movie ever made"! I watched it, and it was...meh. Watching it again years later it was much funnier because my expectations were lower. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2021 20:57:01 GMT
I don't recall reading many if any reviews of A Fish Called Wanda. Rather, it was recommended to me by some Monty Python fan friends. I regard Palin's performance as stupendous. After all, it cannot be easy to portray, sympathetically, someone with such a debilitating stutter. And of course the rest of the cast is top-notch, especially Kline. Sheer genius.
Yeah, it's a problem of expectations. People told me Dumb and Dumber was "the funniest movie ever made"! I watched it, and it was...meh. Watching it again years later it was much funnier because my expectations were lower. Someone should have told you it was crap, you would think it was funny as hell.  |
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Post by Odysseus on Dec 11, 2021 15:53:25 GMT
I don't recall reading many if any reviews of A Fish Called Wanda. Rather, it was recommended to me by some Monty Python fan friends. I regard Palin's performance as stupendous. After all, it cannot be easy to portray, sympathetically, someone with such a debilitating stutter. And of course the rest of the cast is top-notch, especially Kline. Sheer genius.
Yeah, it's a problem of expectations. People told me Dumb and Dumber was "the funniest movie ever made"! I watched it, and it was...meh. Watching it again years later it was much funnier because my expectations were lower.
Must be my problem. My friends highly recommended the Fishwanda movie, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Still do.
However never thought all that highly of the Dumber movie.
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Post by bama beau on Dec 15, 2021 5:18:42 GMT
I'll understand if Maestro skips ahead to 45:00.
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Post by bama beau on Dec 16, 2021 5:37:15 GMT
I love this show.
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Post by Odysseus on Dec 20, 2021 20:10:20 GMT
Been working through some of my DVD's, and came across one that includes the PBS-American Experience hour on "Surviving the Dust Bowl". It's a chilling reminder of how a combination of human negligence and climate change can impact an entire nation.
On a personal level, my mom, God Rest Her Soul, grew up on the edge of the Dust Bowl (I think!) near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Apparently the area escaped the worst of the drought and dust storms, except in May 1934 when a gigantic dust storm swept all the way from Kansas to New York City and into the Atlantic. The funny thing is that news articles from Pittsburgh at the time were sort of unimpressed, as the smoke and haze from the steel mills made the dust storm far less remarkable than it otherwise might have been.
But it was the height of the Great Depression and the economic hardship affected most Americans no matter where they lived. It was particularly harsh for those caught in the Dust Bowl. Rains didn't return until 1939, and two years later the nation was swept into WW2.
I'm halfway through the re-watch, and had to stop for a moment after the heart-rending testimony of a woman who related the death of a younger sibling from pneumonia, a not uncommon affliction to those caught in the never ending dust of the 1930's. In her anguished words, "My mother was never the same"...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 17:42:39 GMT
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Post by Odysseus on Dec 22, 2021 19:16:08 GMT
Should have posted this here: libertynewsforum.boards.net/thread/7344/benedetta-2021[Thread started about an hour ago Quote like Post Options Post by TowardLiberty on about an hour ago I loved loved loved this movie. It had everything. Sex. Violence. A thoughtful message. It was competently crafted in terms of shot composition, editing, lighting, acting, etc (which is a bridge too far for many films these days.. looking at you, Marvel). Paul Verhoven directed it, the man behind Basic Instinct, Robocop and Starship Troopers. So you know right off the bat there will be a rich layer of social satire. And this one does not disappoint. The movie is about a woman who becomes a nun and starts having ecstatic visions, as well as a forbidden affair. I don't want to give anymore a way. One thing I will say.. the film takes aim at the notion that our bodies (and sex) are sinful. There is a dialectical point being made: the body is also part of God and so is sex. This "appreciation of the whole man, body and all" is in direct contrast to the vision of man has somehow fallen or separate from god and the notion that our bodies and its urges are somehow evil, or sinful. In reality, if there is a god she created us whole, meaning the body is also sacred and if the grand architect wants us to pro-create the urges she equipped us for that purpose are holy, too. This movie points toward the need for a fully human spiritual expression.. one outside of the limits of institutional power. If any movie can claim to be transgressive, this one can!]
Never saw it, but I'll keep a watch.
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Post by Odysseus on Dec 25, 2021 19:40:26 GMT
Local Fox affiliate station, KTVU, has been airing wonderful old movies on their third channel. You may have noticed my posts about some of the film noir movies they've been showing. But they've also been showing other genres of older movies.
Tonight I very much enjoyed their showing of "Curly Top". Now, I've never been a big Shirley Temple fan, especially after she grew up and became quite the conservative stalwart. But I have to say she's adorable in this movie from 1935. And interestingly it also features Arthur Treacher as the butler. Now, I first saw Mr. Treacher as a sidekick to Merv Griffin back in the 60's. I was not so impressed with him then, since he was probably required to be staid and oh so English in that role. However he comes more alive in Curly Top, and gives a delightful performance as well.
I guess I'm gonna have to set my DVDR to record some of these Shirley Temple flicks for the next week or so. The station seems to like to pair them to the holidays.
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Post by Odysseus on Jan 8, 2022 5:02:13 GMT
This evening the station aired one of the weirdest movies I've seen in a while.
"Magic", a 1978 movie starring a relatively young Anthony Hopkins and Ann Margaret as his love interest. The weird part is that Hopkins is playing a ventriloquist with a very strange obsession with is dummy. So far he's committed at least two murders for the dummy and I have no idea if Ann Margaret is next. Basically gonna just turn the sound off and wait for the next movie. LOL.
Oh well.
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Post by Odysseus on Jan 10, 2022 5:26:00 GMT
Second time around this week, "I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang", on local station. Another film noir.
Starring Paul Muni was the excaped convict. He winds up going north - to Chicago, I think - and makes a name for himself as an engineer. Then he gets waylaid by a scheming blonde landlady who manages to hold him hostage to his past. That's all I remember for now. I guess Paul Muni was a big star back in the day.
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Post by Odysseus on Jan 20, 2022 10:10:41 GMT
Just got through watching a great flick from 1947, "Boomerang". It's based on a true story about a man accused of murder. It takes place in Billy's favorite state, Connecticut. The actual incident took place in 1924 in Bridgeport, but due to city reluctance it was filmed not far away in Stamford. From the cars in the film, it is set to take place in the late 1940's. I won't spoil the story for those who might want to see it, but it includes an excellent performance by Dana Andrews as the states attorney, with Jane Wyman as his devoted wife. Other notable actors include Karl Malden as the police detective, Lee J. Cobb as the police chief.
Here's a link. Warning: it might spoil the plot for you.
And a story about the original suspect:
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Post by Odysseus on Jan 22, 2022 11:11:44 GMT
Earlier this evening watched another classic: Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It's a classic Hollywood movie, set in post-war Paris (well, about 1960) with plenty of plot twists and turns. It's been described as the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made, LOL. The film score includes the classic movie theme Charade, played at appropriate moments. The theme and the score were created by Henry Mancini.
Due to a studio mistake, the film was never properly copyrighted, and so a number of public domain versions are out, with some available for download on-line. The version I watched was broadcast from the Movies! channel, and seemed free of the glitches and poor quality that some downloaders have complained about.
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Post by Odysseus on Jan 22, 2022 11:16:24 GMT
Charade abbreviated soundtrack:
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Post by Odysseus on Jan 22, 2022 11:20:22 GMT
Portion of theme song with words:
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Post by elmerfudd on Jan 22, 2022 23:40:35 GMT
I watched that movie and it was good. Isn't that the one where a guy dies and several people show up to make sure he's dead, including George Kennedy who sticks the corpose with a knife or an ice pick?
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Post by Odysseus on Jan 23, 2022 1:10:03 GMT
I watched that movie and it was good. Isn't that the one where a guy dies and several people show up to make sure he's dead, including George Kennedy who sticks the corpose with a knife or an ice pick?
Yes, except he used a pin or needle to stick the corpse at the funeral service. And I think it was James Coburn and not George Kennedy who did the pin work.
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Post by Odysseus on Jan 30, 2022 3:09:45 GMT
Just watched a broadcast, off and on, of "Airplane!" on the local movie channel, for the second time this month. It is truly a masterpiece of whatever genre it's supposed to be in. So many funny bits.
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