What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stavros]

There was a good miniseries on the American TNT network a few years ago called The Company. It dealt with the beginnings of the CIA following the end of WW II and the start of the Cold War. Starring Chris O'Donnell, Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Gambon. Robert DeNiro directed, and starred along with Matt Damon, in a film called The Good Shepherd, which covers similar ground about the CIA being created out of the defunct OSS. Breach, starring Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillppe, is based on the true story of the takedown of Robert Hanssen, a CIA operative who had been selling state secrets to the Soviet Union for years before being caught.

Thanks for the tips, I haven't heard of those films, will investigate.

[stephenward]

The Lady Eve (1941) starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, directed by Preston Sturges. A classic, fun, screwball comedy.

[Nicole Dupre]

I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.

It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?

[rockabilly]

"American History X"

[Stavros]

I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.

It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?

I read Carson McCullers story, and saw the film when it was released in the UK, but I don't recall it being impressive in any way; however I would like to see it again. Its available in box sets of Brando films (in the UK anyway) US probably as a single dvd.

Taylor made two now obscure films in 1968 with Joseph Losey, Boom! was an adaptation of Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Secret Ceremony with Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum was badly mauled by the producers before its release and got an even worse reception than Boom! Mia Farrow is the kiss of death in any film, but Taylor was by this time well into her hysterical diva era -and Losey was a crap director anyway. Nevertheless, attempts at serious film making which might be worth catching up on. Her most obscure film, Il giovane Toscanini was the film Zeffirelli made in 1988 about the conductor Toscanini in Brazil (C Thomas Howell plays the Italian maestro) -Taylor plays an ageing opera singer who married the Emperor of Brazil and lost her career, until Toscanini persuades her to make an inevitably triumphant return to the stage as Aida. I believe the film was so badly received on its release the producers withdrew it although I think its now available on dvd.

[buttslinger]

KISS ME DEADLY

Ralph Meeker stars as Mike Hammer, a streetwise private dick just one notch above the criminals he investigates.

[Gouki]

The Champ (1979)

[Ben]

I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.

It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?

Another classic, as it were, is Robert Redford's The Candidate. I've been meaning to watch it at some point.

[robertlouis]

I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.

It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?

That's because it was a clunker lol.

Elizabeth Taylor was however involved in several film adaptations of Tennessee Williams' plays which dealt with homosexuality however obliquely given the moral climate of the times and the strictures of the Hayes Code. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Paul Newman is the best known example, but it is "Suddenly Last Summer" with Montgomery Clift that sticks more vividly in my mind. Both well worth seeking out, Nicole.

[robertlouis]

I saw the British film "Submarine" on the Singapore - London leg of my homeward flight a couple of weeks ago and thought it was very good indeed. Based on a novel and deals with an adolescent boy's coming of age in a small Welsh seaside town. Funny and touching by turns. I'd recommend it very strongly.