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In this week's pile..."Cockfighter"...Monte Hellman with Warren Oates. One of the best acting films, this side of "Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia". Included is a great bio-featurette on Oates with lots of great Oates stories...essential, I feel. End of an era.
"Breathless"...Jean Luc Godard...what more can you say about it? I've been re-reading "Godard on Godard" this past week. great reading. great film.
"Alphaville"...Godard's science fiction take. The Criterion edition release.
"The Menagerie" Star Trek guilty pleasure. Classic Kirk-Spock with Jeffrey Hunter. Guilty pleasure time here. Put on a thinking cap!
"Belle de Jour"...Luis Bunuel and Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Deneuve. She gives off lots of coooooool heat.
"Rashomon"...Kurosawa Criterion edition. finally.
"The Devil's Brigade"...based on a real story. strong cast from Old Hollywood. A last gasp of sorts. A Memorial Day special treat, along with "Flying Tigers" and "Sands of Iwo Jima"...just love those bloody aerial scenes.
"310 to Yuma"...childhood favorite. very taut western drama. Glenn Ford at his best, but still a close second to "The Big Heat".
"True Grit"...great John Wayne characterization. One of the best westerns, because it deconstructs the strong male western myth with female true grit...ahead of it's time, though decievingly a throw-away.
"American Gigolo" Paul Schrader and Richard Gere combine to give a solid effort, to what could have been a sleepwalk for Gere. Gere is always walking that thin line between turning in, what could have been, a routine, "phone in", acting performance. This is his best...aside from his light fluffy comedy turns, which he is expert at sleepwalking through. Still holds up even today.
"Serpico"...vhs release...Pacino simmers here for two hours in a strong moral tale. You can almost hear the acting wheel's turning.
Follow Ups:
I taped it the other night.
Bruce Dern did a classic psycho part in this 70's flick about the Black Panthers trying to blow up the Super Bowl. Amazing parallels to the recent events of 9/11.Cheers
John K
JDK,I love that film. Robert Shaw is terrific as the Mossad agent.
BTW...It was the Black September group...not the Black Panthers.
Bruce Dern is fabulous in the role and I may have to rent it this afternoon.
Thanks dude.
Tosh
Yes, sorry, that was them.
Great film. Bruce Dern is oft forgotten as one of the great psycho players.Cheers
John K
Hi,
True Grit is a good movie, perhaps Waynes best. But in no respect was it ahead of it's time. As respects to aviation, there are few good
dogfights on film. You might try the old brit docudrama 'Piece of Cake'. If you are familiar with dogfighting, it has some simply done, but nice work. There is one maneuver where the Spits turn aorund the flight path of incoming 109s; and turn sharply towards a wing of bombers. it's not a obvious hollywood moment, but it sat me straight up in my seat when I saw it. Sheer balls to the wall flying.
Love the bloody carnage in "Flying Tigers"....as the Japanese pilots are shoot...they grasp their throats and blood flows out and over their hands....the good old days, right ?
heh heh.
You don't see many of those oldies on the TV any more, thank goodness.
John Waynes acting was at its absolute stilted inept peak.Cheers
John K
The Quiet Man-wonderfully atmospheric film, with great support from veteran Irish character actors. John Ford reportedly remarkedThe Shootist-Wayne's farewell film, a poignant performance of a gunfighter dying of cancer made more so by his real life struggle with the disease.
I hadn't finished the quote from John Ford after seeing the Quiet Man - "I didn't know the big lug could act!"
"Red River"."Wings of Eagles".
Hi,
I am interested in dogfighting. I'm not good at it, mind you, just interested. For years I played the WW2 aerial combat game Warbirds.
It's played over the net, I was in a squad, the 111th. I thought a lot of that old Hollywoood stuff was cheesy. The plain truth is we double teamed the Japanese planes. Our planes were less maneuverable, so when a bogey got behind a plane and started shooting....his buddy would attack him.
That's why our Navy planes looked like flying bank vaults. They needed to take a few hits. The bullets we used were capable of ripping a plane apart. If one hit a person, I imagine it would make quite a mess, a l ittle more than Hollywood was used to back then. From the gun camera footage I have seen, the lightly armored planes the Japanese used simply fell apart under attack, or burst into flame, or exploded...you get the idea.
Some of us have to work.
I did have a few more but I didnt want to sound like I had tooo much to view !
Too much to view? Nah, who would ever say such nonsense?I hope that kept you from going to SW... :-)))))
I loved it !!!!
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"Hideous Kinky". Ugh."Holy Smoke". Ugh.
"Heavenly Creatures". Some interesting scenes but still--slight ugh.
Enough Winslet; time to move on.
"Nosferatu" .... Max Schreck's Silent film version directed by F. W. Murnau.
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"W. C. Fields" ... 2-sided DVD with 6 of Fields' short films from the 1930's, including "The Golf Specialist", Fields' 1st. talking film.
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"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" ... Featuring Lon Chaney, Jr. as "The Wolfman", Bela Lugosi as "Dracula", & Glenn Strange as the "Frankenstein Monster".
Tell us about this release too...the Image Entertainment release, right ?
This is the Criterion release. Max Schreck as "Count Orlock", with Gustave von Wagenheim, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder.
Director: F. W. Murnau; Photography: Fritz Arno Wagner; Art Director: Albin Grau.
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According to box, "Dolby Stereo Sound, B&W with color tints, 81 Minutes. Copy is from the "Blackhawk Film Collection."
"Mastered from 35 Mm Archival material; Restored edition features Exclusive audio essay by Lokke Heiss, and supplementary materials including Then-and-Now Photographs."
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Two music formats you can select: "Organ Score composed and performed by Timothy Howard."
or (I edited this slightly to save space) "Dolby Digital 5.0 Score composed and performed by the Silent Orchestra. This eclectic duo transports early cinema to a modern audience..... They combine acoustic and electronic sounds with contemporary and traditional styles..... The Silent Orchestra is: Carlos Garza (Keys and Knobs), Rich O'Meara (percussion, and more knobs).
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Good quality film, a little jiggle to the picture but not enough to be annoying. Schreck I think still hold's record for ugliest Vampire :)
Is this the Criterion release ? Tell us about it .
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