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Post by dreamer on Dec 21, 2008 3:43:13 GMT -5
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Post by Tracy Lord on Dec 21, 2008 14:49:54 GMT -5
Those caps are great! I haven't seen that movie.
I've seen You Can't Take it With You, Marked Women, and Possessed.
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Post by Richard on Dec 23, 2008 15:00:14 GMT -5
Rage in Heaven (1941) -- Robert Montgomery escapes from a sanitarium and ends up marrying a secretary played by Ingrid Bergman. But Montgomery's thinly-veiled insanity creates tension in his marriage to Bergman and in the relationship with old friend George Sanders, whom he suspects of having intimate feelings towards his wife.
Not bad. The performances are hardly exceptional but the story holds your attention.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) -- I missed the last ten minutes and how I wish I understood this movie better. But I thought it was interesting to watch for two reasons; one, the performances and, two, the overall look of the movie which I found so appealing. George Bernard Shaw is going to become one of my literal pursuits in the future. Vivien Leigh portrays Cleopatra and Claude Rains as Julies Caesar.
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Post by Judy on Dec 23, 2008 16:28:50 GMT -5
Rage in Heaven (1941) -- Robert Montgomery escapes from a sanitarium and ends up marrying a secretary played by Ingrid Bergman. But Montgomery's thinly-veiled insanity creates tension in his marriage to Bergman and in the relationship with old friend George Sanders, whom he suspects of having intimate feelings towards his wife. Not bad. The performances are hardly exceptional but the story holds your attention. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) -- I missed the last ten minutes and how I wish I understood this movie better. But I thought it was interesting to watch for two reasons; one, the performances and, two, the overall look of the movie which I found so appealing. George Bernard Shaw is going to become one of my literal pursuits in the future. Vivien Leigh portrays Cleopatra and Claude Rains as Julies Caesar. Pop Quiz, Richard: And who did Anthony Harvey play in Caesar and Cleopatra? Yes, that Anthony Harvey. Oh, and you SHOULD make Shaw a pursuit. Definitely. Happy holidays, all. Judy
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Post by Shaun on Dec 24, 2008 1:29:03 GMT -5
I watched Beyond The Forest, that fabulous turkey! I hate to say it but Bette Davis was really ridiculous in this movie. She was right for fighting against it.
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Post by Richard on Dec 24, 2008 17:30:53 GMT -5
Pop Quiz, Richard: And who did Anthony Harvey play in Caesar and Cleopatra? Yes, that Anthony Harvey. Oh, and you SHOULD make Shaw a pursuit. Definitely. Happy holidays, all. Judy I'll have to admit I didn't get this right away. I actually had to look up Tony Harvey's credits on imdb to discover he played Ptolemy; course, I couldn't remember who Ptolemy was in the movie. But then I saw that Harvey's birth date was in 1931, and simple mathematics would tell me he was around 14 at the time. So, what character looked like a teenager? It was pretty obvious then that he was the brother/husband of Cleopatra. That was fun. Thanks for pointing it out. Period of Adjustment (1962) -- Jane Fonda and Jim Hutton are newlyweds driving to Florida for their honeymoon. They argue and shout at each other constantly. Hutton's war buddy, played by Tony Franciosa, has just been separated from his wife and child and is living alone. Hutton decides to take a detour and visit Franciosa -- taking a disgruntled Fonda along for the ride -- instead of celebrating his marrige to his wife. From then on it's basically about the marital problems of these two couples. I liked it, though I haven't really made up my mind about Fonda in this one -- she was interesting but too irritating of a character with all that whining and bawling. Then there's the accent. It was adapted from a Tennessee Williams play so the script is fabulous.
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Post by Jone on Dec 27, 2008 16:44:55 GMT -5
Morocco... oh boy I'm in love with this movie!!! I could watch it again and again and never get tired of it!
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Post by Tracy Lord on Dec 29, 2008 20:31:24 GMT -5
Gilda for the first time all the way through. I usually watched bits and pieces.
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Post by dreamer on Jan 4, 2009 14:36:24 GMT -5
I finally got to see Lawrence of Arabia again after wishing it for several years. What a threat! What an actor Peter O'Toole is - and what blue eyes he has - and again what a master David Lean was. I still wonder if there is any documentary out there - as Kate visited the set in Jerusalem
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Post by Jone on Jan 4, 2009 15:45:20 GMT -5
Two women... well I think I've found the movie of my life! Aww It's a really powerful performance of Sophia! wow I got amazed. Such an amazing movie! I recommend you to see it if you have the chance!... And if you can see it in Italian, much better!
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Post by Richard on Jan 5, 2009 15:24:16 GMT -5
The Cheaters (1945) -- Joseph Schildkraut plays a washed-up stage actor invited as a charity case to spend Christmas with the wealthy Pidgeon family. The father, played by Eugene Pallette, discovers that there is an inheritance coming from a recently deceased relative. But as it turns out he won't be receiving this money and conceives an elaborate scheme involving a young woman (Ona Munson) and invites her to spend the holidays with the family.
Very pleasant movie. Billie Burke, the mother of the clan, does what you might have expected her to do, and that is to play the role of a typical dim-witted society wife to perfection. Of course I say that with affection, she is marvelous as always. Robert Osborne claims this is "the best Christmas movie who've never seen". And indeed it is. Catch it if you can.
Cluny Brown (1946) -- Jennifer Jones plays the title role and has some expertise with the plumbing business. Eventually she meets a Czech writer (Charles Boyer), who becomes a love interest later on but part ways in the meantime, and is sent to work as a servant at a country estate by her uncle. They get together in the end and it's all very cute and funny and wonderful.
This was Ernst Lubitsch' last film he completed in its entirety. Good supporting work from Peter Lawford and Helen Walker and the guy who played one of the seven dwarfs in "Ball of Fire". I nearly danced a jig when I realized that! Find this movie, you'll love it.
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Post by Hep on Jan 21, 2009 18:05:36 GMT -5
The Little Minister. Ive been waiting for this movie to come back on faw evah ! The wait is over. I laffed in the beginning when Robby Osbourne decided to refer to Kate as KatBurn. funny stuff. also I watched Freaks (1932). Its a cult movie, and pretty strange. The movie involves a group of circus performers. A beautiful trapeze artist marries a dwarf for his money, then plots his murder with her lover, the circus strong man. The movies pretty graphic considering its from 1932. The song Pinhead by The Ramones is a reference to the movie (any Ramones fans here?) Its only an hour long. Heres the link if anyones interested in watching it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwipIKBm7e4Its been pretty dead around here by the way.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jan 21, 2009 18:24:55 GMT -5
The Little Minister. Ive been waiting for this movie to come back on faw evah ! The wait is over. I laffed in the beginning when Robby Osbourne decided to refer to Kate as KatBurn. Its been pretty dead around here by the way. He called her 'KatBurn'? Like, on purpose? Are you sure he wasn't just chewing on some leftover food particle and slurred his words? Also, we in the business call him 'Bob-O'. Confession (I seem to have made that a habit on here): I cried at The Little Minister. Bawled my eyes out of their respective sockets.
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Post by Hep on Jan 21, 2009 18:35:37 GMT -5
LOL-i played it back twice to make sure I heard it right. "Bob-O" did indeed say KatBurn. I laffed, i honestly did.
Oh and I cried too. how can you not?
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Post by Hep on Jan 22, 2009 17:49:33 GMT -5
(Gotta keep this place alive) Today I watched Factory Girl, about Edie Sedgwick. Edie was part of Andy Warhols "Factory crew", the movies sort of her biography but focuses mainly on her Factory days. Sienna Miller looks and sounds EXACTLY like Edie, its almost unreal. The real Edie Sedgwick: Sienna Miller:
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