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  • Dave2002
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 18021

    Arsenic and Old Lace - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

    An absolute hoot - even in black and white. Finally noticed Dr Gillespie (Raymond Massey) in the "Boris Karloff" role - Jonathan. This is total lunacy - great fun - with Cary Grant as the principal character Mortimer Brewster. The director was Frank Capra - otherwise well known for a Christmas film - It's a Wonderful Life.

    If you've never seen it, add it to the "must see" list - though don't expect high art!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26536

      Brilliant and hilarious turn from the young Alec Guinness in Ronald Neame's 1952 The Card (screenplay Eric Ambler based on Arnold Bennett's novel): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045056...f_=tt_ov_st_sm

      Nice score by William Alwyn
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • richardfinegold
        Full Member
        • Sep 2012
        • 7666

        Dumbo Tim Burton does the remake. Took the Grandkids. Burton's trademark creepiness in spades. The three year old spent the entire movie hiding her eyes.
        Couldn't they just have done a straight remake? It's Disney, for crying out loud...

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        • Dave2002
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 18021

          Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
          Dumbo Tim Burton does the remake. Took the Grandkids. Burton's trademark creepiness in spades. The three year old spent the entire movie hiding her eyes.
          Couldn't they just have done a straight remake? It's Disney, for crying out loud...
          Mark Kermode - one of the critics over here, said that the original was better and more fun.

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          • eighthobstruction
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6441

            ....just watched The Passenger 1975 + jack Nickleson /Maria Sniedder....never seren before, bit like pace and atmosphere (tho' Spanish),leaving you up in the air like : Performance....recorded from Sat'....goodv late afternoon feed avec some Potato Tortilla with Hollandaise Sauce +salt/black pepper....
            bong ching

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            • LMcD
              Full Member
              • Sep 2017
              • 8472

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Brilliant and hilarious turn from the young Alec Guinness in Ronald Neame's 1952 The Card (screenplay Eric Ambler based on Arnold Bennett's novel): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045056...f_=tt_ov_st_sm

              Nice score by William Alwyn
              We watched this on TPTV a few weeks ago. I wonder whether the 'football club saviour' storyline inspired the 'Glorious Gordon' episode of Michael Palin's 'Ripping Yarns'.
              Do you suppose Alwyn used the income from his film scores to subsidize other less profitable work?

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              • Richard Tarleton

                The Highwaymen, on Netflix - the true story of the two retired, grizzled Texas Rangers, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, who hunted down Bonnie and Clyde. Told from their point of view, you don't see Bonnie and Clyde's faces until the very end, when it's quite shocking. Starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson who look very grizzled indeed, with Kathy Bates doing a good turn as the Governor. Great cinematography too, with startling images of dustbowl USA in the 1930s.

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12842

                  Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                  ....just watched The Passenger 1975 + jack Nickleson /Maria Sniedder....never seren before, bit like pace and atmosphere (tho' Spanish),leaving you up in the air like : Performance....recorded from Sat'......
                  ... and I hope you relished the film's extraordinary penultimate shot, a seven-minute long one-take tracking shot which begins in Locke's hotel room, looking out on to a dusty, run-down square, pushes out through the bars of the hotel window into the square, rotates 180 degrees, and finally tracks back to a close exterior view of the room's interior...



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                  • richardfinegold
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2012
                    • 7666

                    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                    The Highwaymen, on Netflix - the true story of the two retired, grizzled Texas Rangers, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, who hunted down Bonnie and Clyde. Told from their point of view, you don't see Bonnie and Clyde's faces until the very end, when it's quite shocking. Starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson who look very grizzled indeed, with Kathy Bates doing a good turn as the Governor. Great cinematography too, with startling images of dustbowl USA in the 1930s.
                    It was pretty good. Another one of those over the hill gang recover past glories. The older I get the more sympathetic I become to this theme...

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      Whistle Down the Wind at Skipton Plaza - a lifelong favourite film for me, but the first time I've seen it in a cinema. Wonderful film, and Arnold's Music matches it pitch perfect: just on the borderlinbe of sentimentality, but skillfully avoiding it.

                      "It's not Jesus - it's just a fella."
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • teamsaint
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 25210

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Whistle Down the Wind at Skipton Plaza - a lifelong favourite film for me, but the first time I've seen it in a cinema. Wonderful film, and Arnold's Music matches it pitch perfect: just on the borderlinbe of sentimentality, but skillfully avoiding it.

                        "It's not Jesus - it's just a fella."
                        Never seen it. But I'll make sure I do now.
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • Pabmusic
                          Full Member
                          • May 2011
                          • 5537

                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          Whistle Down the Wind at Skipton Plaza - a lifelong favourite film for me, but the first time I've seen it in a cinema. Wonderful film, and Arnold's Music matches it pitch perfect: just on the borderlinbe of sentimentality, but skillfully avoiding it.

                          "It's not Jesus - it's just a fella."
                          The final scene has the added depth that murder with a firearm was, in 1961, a capital offence. Something that (thankfully) younger generations might not know.

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                          • LMcD
                            Full Member
                            • Sep 2017
                            • 8472

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            Never seen it. But I'll make sure I do now.
                            It crops up periodically on Talking Pictures TV.

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                            • johncorrigan
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 10363

                              I mentioned this elsewhere, but though 'Amazing Grace' may not be the greatest example of cinema ever made, Aretha is utterly incredible in this film from '72 when she 'returned to church'. As her Father says, 'she never left her church!'

                              No ego from Aretha; just praise. Wonderful performance from a woman at the peak of her power.

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                              • Richard Tarleton

                                Watched The Favourite - was fairly bored, though stuck with it as Mrs T seemed to be quite enjoying it. With its obvious emphasis on the lead characters the political complexities of the time were grossly oversimplified - what anyone not familiar with the history of the period could have made of it I can't imagine. In fact so much of it is speculative or fictitious that I'm really not sure what the point of it was. The poison/horse/brothel/scar bit total fiction.

                                Eclectic (random, anachronistic) selection of music (no original score) - among much else, that Handel from Barry Lyndon again, Schubert D960 2nd movement .....

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