Wonderful German Expressionism.
Wonderful German Expressionism.
Last edited by ronmac; 02-02-2018 at 07:58 PM.
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Stunning special effects from 1927.
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Regarding TCM's Oscar month, The Hustler is on tomorrow night at 1 am. A very good movie starring one of America's 2 or 3 best actors: Paul Newman. Also stars Jackie Gleeson as Minnesota Fats. What I always found interesting about the movie is that the technical advisor was Willie Mosconi, the long time rival to the real Minnesota Fats.
And on Monday morning at 6:45 is The Sorrow and the Pity, a documentary about the collaboration between the French Vichy government and the Nazis. I have yet to see it but I know it's been long considered one of the best movies made.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
I use this as a desktop picture on my computer.
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One of the iconic images of silent horror.
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I was going to say, King Kong was viscerally violent and made quite an impression on me when I was a kid. Especially the scene where he breaks that dino’s jaw and you can see the blood flow.
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Tonight in TCM at 8:00 EST
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Only a true movie fan watches movies in black and white
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.
Yep, that was an added feature on the Peter Jackson DVD. He did a pretty convincing job of it. He worked from the original script and scene stills.
That original scene was intact until they pre-screened it to audiences prior to release. They were so horrified, that it was cut and lost forever.
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We switched back and forth between Baby Jane and the Olympics last night. It's hard to root for Blanche surviving when you know what a righteous bitch Joan Crawford was. Bette Davis was a piece of work as well but not to that extreme. I forgot how ambiguous the ending was on whether Blanche survives.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
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I thought the insect pit scene in Peter Jackson's own King Kong was disappointed, because I was expecting spiders, which I would have found much more interesting and scary than what he did use. I always find that hairless spiders give the best scare value, and everything else is sort of a letdown. And those worm things didn't work too well for me. But I do need to rewatch that whole movie.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
I know people totally into movies that absolutely refuse to watch anything not in color. I grew up watching old movies in the 60's and 70's on a BW TV. So fortunately for me I have no such aversion. Consequenly I have had the privalige of enjoying the likes of The Maltese Falcon, High Noon , Its a Wonderful Life, and countless other true classics. An experience I would have missed had I insisted on the inclusion of the color red. Not my loss, the danger of contempt prior to investigation.
Watched In Cold Blood '67 yesterday, pretty dark docudrama based on a Capote book. The senselessness off it really came through.
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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The older I get, the better I was.
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