For me the real horror movies are anything with Dora Bryan in them. Oh yes - Beryl Reid is pretty grim too
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For me the real horror movies are anything with Dora Bryan in them. Oh yes - Beryl Reid is pretty grim too
She looks like a lady who would bother me in my neighborhood too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
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Now this a film that makes my flesh creep - a psychological horror film
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - YouTube
I was gonna mention Joan Crawford's Horror period. She was very good in the Night Gallery pilot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
This still holds up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsIm2zTbFWk
And this one too - but you have to see the whole film.
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard
Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready for My Close-Up - Sunset Blvd. (8/8) Movie CLIP (1950) HD - YouTube
You much for Carol Burnett? Amazing talent with phenomenal cast of characters and friends on that show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Nora Desmond: Bed Bug Commercial - YouTube
I caught Closed for the Season at the drive-in this weekend, I think it was one of them arty concept films. At first it was really really boring, but after a couple hours the message about the emptiness of life without sensual stimulation became very clear, and a kind of euphoria happened. Great Film. Man.
The Drive-In, huh? I really miss those things. Used to be some great ones out here.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttslinger
The Master
Beautifully shot, beautifully acted - but way too long. It could do with some judicious editing. This trailer suggests a far more energetic film than you'll see.
This is Paul Tomas Anderson's first film since the brilliant There Will Be Blood.
At its core an examination of how lost souls are attracted to quasi religious and ludicrous cults. In this case they call it "The Cause" but many have suggested it might just be based upon scientology and its founder L Ron Hubbard (newspapers are very coy about this because the Scientologists sue anyone and everyone).
The Master - Official Trailer (2012) [HD] - YouTube
Interesting piece from the Guardian about this movie that i just ran across by sheer chance after posting my remarks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/...homas-anderson
The Bay
It was a pretty good movie ,u should watch guys if u are into sf .....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgoWlESPzso
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky, 2011).
Tarr first planned this film with Laszlo Krasznahorkai in the 1980s but was unable to make it until the last few years, building the entire set from scratch in a valley in Hungary. The impetus for the film is an incident that took place in Turin in 1889 when the philosopher Freidrich Nietzsche witnessed a horse that wouldn't budge being flogged by its owner. Nietzsche wrapped his arms around the horse in despair, and on being taken back to his hotel in a state of collapse, said Mutter, ich bin Dumm, and, it is claimed, never spoke again until his death in 1900. What happened to the horse?
In fact, although one sees the horse at the beginning of this film, it concerns the last 6 days of mankind in the form of the horse, its owner and his daughter who live in penury in the midst of a storm, eating one boiled potato a day, observing a routine that is broken when the horse refuses to haul the cart or eat. On one day a local man in need of Palinka arrives, rants on about the end of the world and is thrown out; on another day gypsies in a cart invade the property, help themselves to the water in the well (which subsequently dries up), and give the fgirl a book, a sort of anti-bible with dire prophecies. At the end, after the storm, there is no water, no way of boiling the potatoes, and no light. two and half hours and 30 takes, if you like Tarr, and I do, this superbly shot film becomes an anthem to despair; both of these people have options, yet like characters from a story or a play by Samuel Beckett, their focus has narrowed from routine, their aspirations have dimmed, they are on a treadmill of death. Or it could be Tarr's way of expressing his frustation with the business of making films, that he has run out of things to say. Either way, it is on its own terms a masterpiece, but a film that asks too much of the average film goer, it will drive them up the wall with its attention to detail, although it is clear that between day 3 and 4 Erika Bok has washed her hair (she is blonde in real life). Recommended, for purists.
The Turin Horse - opening scene - YouTube
Purists indeed. I think Stavros already knows my view of this film. I confess it has haunted me a little since I saw it and i grasp his interpretation well. The analogy with Samuel Becket is a good one. But whereas Godot or most of Becket's other plays are engaging, or funny or if neither of these, short, this goes on.. and on.. and on.. and on... i found it among the most tedious I've ever watched.
Mind you I've not see Bela Tarr's even longer earlier efforts.
ARGO...Go see it!
That good, huh? I'm so lazy about going to the theater. End up procrastinating enough that I wait for it to come out on DVD. Got an AMC Multiplex close enough to me like it's walking to the back of the house but still don't go. The few times I do go I'm usually glad wondering why I don't go out to the movies more often.Quote:
Originally Posted by CORVETTEDUDE
Get outta the house Dino....
I go running past the theater sunburned nowadays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Argofuckyourself! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by CORVETTEDUDE
It's a decent flick.
Decent? Worth 12 bucks?Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
Hmmmmm, that's a hard one. Only if you got a date and you're pretty sure she's going to let you feel her up during the slow parts.
That's 24 bucks now. 76 more and I bagged one of my honeys.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
And don't forget the buckets of popcorn and soda...you can probably have a hot dog too, on account of your being in California...
After stopping off at the concession stand I could've ditched my date and had a "date" instead. Shit's crazy expensive. Juju Beans like 8 bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Juju Beans? Sounds like something from a horror film...
Fred Sanford from Sanford & Son popped in my head. Always talking about Juju Beans getting stuck in his teeth. He's right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
I miss Redd Foxx.
Redd Foxx - Wash Your Ass - YouTube
Redd Foxx Live - YouTube
I don't see this as being any different from genre films which I don't watch, like teen flicks, Transformers, anything with Predator and stuff like that, there are enough types to go round. With Tarr that phrase, reality extended to the point of madness comes to mind. There is an occasional sense of the absurd or ridiculous in Tarr's films, and there is a theory that his films are as religious as Tarkovsky's, but without the explicit or implicit imagery this involves. Also, Tarr uses mostly original scripts -even when they are books he has tended to rely on Krasznahorkai- and original music by Mihaly Vag, The Man From London being an exception (a Simenon story); so he is closer to Bergman in this respect. I think where Tarr succeeds is in building a cumulative effect over time, but you have to endure it, there is no doubt about that, for a lot of people, life is too short to commit to films of his length.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Every year there seems to be a new Spielberg movie. Last year it was the overly sentimental adaptation of "War Horse" But his latest "Lincoln" is terrific. Due out in the US and Uk very soon. An Oscar winning performance by Daniel Day Lewis in this new film about the President's fight to win a constittional amendment in the closing days of the Civil War. Ba one or two "god-bless-America" Spielbergisms at the beginning this is a powerful film built around the struggle by the Republicans to persuade their own militant wing and some Democrats to vioe for the amendment outlawing slavery. Two and a half hours long and largely a film full of speeches, discussion and debates, it is - nevertheless - rivetting. Spielberg's best serious film. And seeing it just a couple of days after Obama's victory is has a special resonance.
I also saw a very different and as yet unreleased film "Hitchcock" - with Anthony Hopkins as the director. it focuses on his battle to make Psycho - opposed by the studio who thought it uncommercial and finally funded from his own money. Terrific ensemble performances. An interesting study of this brilliant director and with some nice humour.
And a few days ago I caught "Skyfall" . First up the most remarkable thing was that, at the industry screening I attended, in the audience was none other than Sean Connery! Checking on the way the latest Bond handles things i guess. And M of course and the newest Q.
Anyway it is a great romp of a film - the opening chase one of the best ever and, though a little long, grips your attention all the way through. I think the Bond franchise is in great hands.
However Daniel Craig brings no personality to the role at all. He has steely eyes, perfect physique and is macho to the Nth degree. But every now and then you glimpse the notion of a mind of interest before it runs away and hides.
There is thankfully a little more wit than the first of the Craig Bonds - and I've never summoned the will to watch Quantum Of Solace.
All in all though - a good evening's entertainment. Nothing more, but nothing less.
Leaving aside the inability of Daniel Day-Lewis to act, unless you consider that tortured grimacing acting, are you not bothered by the presentation of queers as evil, a common theme in Bond films, where a man after all, is a man? I haven't seen Skyfall and it might be escapist entertainment, but it is hardly innocent in the way that it has selected its victims over the years.
Daniel Day-Lewis is actually an excellent actor. I see you disagree. So be it. Two Oscars for best actor already under his belt. Which of his films have you seen?
And he was NOT in Skyfall. I didn't say I approved of "queers" as being evil. There are many many things wrong with the Bond films - objectification of women, worship of macho values, celebration of violence etc etc etc. But accept these and suspend judgements about it over these and you have what it has always been - "escapist" cartoon-like entertainment.
Get an watch QOS you tart, it ties up the loose ends!Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Bugger, that's supposed to be fat tart!
You been looking at my private profile again Jericho?
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Originally Posted by Prospero
Brrrrrrrrrr, i should coco! :hide-1:
Never mind trying to distract me, get and watch it!
What does an Oscar have to do with anything? You of all people should not be associating ability with that lump of metal. And of course I have see DDL in films, not the least the dire There Will Be Blood a badly written film of such relentless hoakum I don't know why it was made, in which DDL manages to maintain the same agonised expression on his face from first to last. To me he is one of that select group of 'actors': Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Nicolas Cage and Ralph Fiennes -of whom to call them wooden is an insult to trees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
You may be right about Skyfall and I will even go and see it, but you can't pretend that there is no meaning in the choice of villain in popular movies, and that these change with the times (Russians, Arabs, Muslims, the Chinese, and so on) and you don't need to be a Professor of Film Theory to work it out.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
I know this isn't addressed to me but, I love you...You cantankerous old bastard!
Splendid, old chap!:party:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
First of all I would like to thank my producer, my agent and my wife without whom this project would never have seen the light of day....
In the meantime this is an interesting list
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...ost_films.html
Again your judgement is yours. Oscars are awarded, as are Baftas, for many things and many reasons. But they are voted on by the industry. By the peers of the actors, directors, producers and others who work in the industry. For many reasons. I disagree profoundly with your opinion - which is all it is. Your are probably THE most intelligent person posting on this site, (your discussion of Popper and Wittgenstein in another thread demonstrates that amply) but you also seem to believe your intelligence makes your opinion infallible. it is not. Your wisdom and intelligence is directly in balance with your pompous self importance.
I obviously cannot agree -I consider myself of average intelligence, and you know perfectly well that there are posters on HA whose knowledge of, say, science is superior to mine; and you mistake strong opinions for pompous self-importance. The problem with art is that you cannot prove that Daniel Day-Lewis is more worthy of a gong than Peter Sarsgard; you can defend the Oscars as an industry-based awards system, but was Driving Miss Daisy really the best film of 1989 and Jessica Tandy the best actress? According to you the art is not the point, it is recognition for Jessica Tandy not dying at the age of 50. I am much more flexible and pragmatic in my opinions than you might think, I just don't do charity very well, and in any case, all my opinions are there to be challenged, if anyone is up to it. There are no sacred cows, not in art anyway. And for what it's worth, I have changed my views over the years and see them constantly evolving.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Here! Here! I also defend your open-mindedness on film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Stavros. Regarding your level of intelligence then you and I must agree to disagree. LOL
It must, then, be your tone. It comes across as abrasive certainty - rather than the expression of an opinion. I would never claim mine to be other than opinion - but bolstered my belief that Day-Lewis is a fine actor with reference to a wider acclaim accorded him. I fully accept you think he is not. I accept i might be wrong. Do you?