Last Movie You Watched

[aligreto]

Last night, the sequel to the above....

[James]

Carrie
1976 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 1h 38m

In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

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[Spineur]

Jean-Jacques Beineix: Diva

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This should be a mandatory watch for joining GMG, for its fantastic sountrack (Catalani: La Wally).

I wish they would reissue this movie as a fully restored blu-ray, it is so fantastic.

37.2 was the only other movie of Jean-Jacques Beineix which was really sucessful.  He tended to take big risks in the subject he picked.

[George]

Well done doc. Makes you feel like you were there.

[James]

Dressed to Kill
1980 ‧ Mystery/Drama film ‧ 1h 46m

When Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), a prostitute, sees a mysterious woman brutally slay homemaker Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson), she finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police think Liz is the murderer, the real killer wants to silence the crime's only witness. Only Kate's inventor son, Peter (Keith Gordon), believes Liz. Peter and Liz team up to find the real culprit, who has an unexpected means of hiding her identity and an even more surprising motivation to kill.

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[George]

Smokey. And The Bandit

[Spineur]

Getting ready for my trip to myanmar

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A very powerful movie

[listener]

Betty Compson is amazing to watch as proto Marlene Dietrich in Sternberg's superb The Docks of New York from previous year (1928)...

I'll watch for that one.  In the meantime tonight FIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL III with Stephen Chou(various spellings) a genre farce-parody of Basic Instinct.   Directed by Wong Jing, rather low contrast in this edition but not a "classic", Chinese and English subtitles.
Chow is close to being a HK version of Preston Sturges, but a matter of taste.  Very off-the-wall humour IMHO.

[SimonNZ]

Getting ready for my trip to myanmar

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A very powerful movie

A masterpiece that deserves to be much more famous.

[James]

Raising Cain
1992 ‧ Crime film/Drama film ‧ 1h 34m

A highly regarded child psychologist, Dr. Carter Nix (John Lithgow) has shown signs of being unstable, but he completely snaps when he discovers that his wife, Jenny (Lolita Davidovich), is having an affair. Nix's mental breakdown leads to the emergence of various other personalities, including a ruthless thug and a scared little boy. Nix's descent into madness involves murder, revenge and even the abduction of his own daughter, resulting in a suspenseful web of intrigue.

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[Bogey]

The Wolfman
2010 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 1h 59m

Though absent from his ancestral home of Blackmoor for many years, aristocrat Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) returns to find his missing brother at the request of the latter's fiancee, Gwen (Emily Blunt). He learns that a creature has links to an ancient curse turning people into werewolves when the moon is full. To save the village and protect Gwen, he must slay the bloodthirsty beast, but he contends with a horrifying family legacy.

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Love the old Universal stuff, so had to opt into this version last night.

[NikF]

Love the old Universal stuff, so had to opt into this version last night.

Good stuff.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

[NikF]

Again, good stuff.

[Bogey]

Really good stuff!

[Bogey]

From IMdB

William Castle toyed with other ideas to frighten audience members, in addition to 'percepto'; among them: rolling bean bags to brush against the legs of audience members, speakers mounted at different areas that would give a 'screech' when the tingler appeared, and possibly even using 'shills' to operate some type of mechanical device to tickle the legs of the audience members; but the only viable way of doing it was by attaching buzzers in select seats to coincide with the appearance of the tingler- 'percepto'.

[NikF]

From IMdB

William Castle toyed with other ideas to frighten audience members, in addition to 'percepto'; among them: rolling bean bags to brush against the legs of audience members, speakers mounted at different areas that would give a 'screech' when the tingler appeared, and possibly even using 'shills' to operate some type of mechanical device to tickle the legs of the audience members; but the only viable way of doing it was by attaching buzzers in select seats to coincide with the appearance of the tingler- 'percepto'.

That's one of the reasons I enjoy Joe Dante's nothing if not affectionate 'Matinee' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107529/ although I generally find him fun to watch for the nods he gives to other directors and cinematographers, and the forced perspective stuff etc he sometimes employs.

[Bogey]

That's one of the reasons I enjoy Joe Dante's nothing if not affectionate 'Matinee' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107529/ although I generally find him fun to watch for the nods he gives to other directors and cinematographers, and the forced perspective stuff etc he sometimes employs.

I will try to check it out.

[GioCar]

A masterpiece that deserves to be much more famous.

+1!
Certain films are highly considered for a short period of time (and The Burmese Harp is one of those), then they are quickly forgotten.

[James]

Manhattan Baby
1982 ‧ Horror ‧ 1h 31m

An Egyptologist (Christopher Connelly) defiles a tomb with his presence, and his daughter becomes a pawn of evil.

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