Last Movie You Watched

[Karl Henning]

In patches over the past few days, I've revisited M:I 3 and M:I 4 Ghost Protocol Just good fun.

[SonicMan46]

Last few nights, watched a couple of old Jimmy Stewart films from 1938 (first two shown below) recorded on my DVR:

Of Human Hearts (1938) w/ James Stewart, Walter Huston, Beulah Bondi, & Charles Coburn - synopsis quoted below - Huston & Stewart were excellent together, and Bondi was outstanding (she played Stewart's mother in 5 films!).

Shopworn Angel, The (1938) w/ Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, & Hattie McDaniel - Sullavan and Stewart were great together and made four films - my favorite and considered their best is The Shop Around the Corner from 1940 - Dave

This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.

   

[Karl Henning]

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

[SonicMan46]

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Karl - did you watch the release below?  If so, what did you think about the video & audio quality (LINK)?  Dave
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[Karl Henning]

Karl - did you watch the release below?  If so, what did you think about the video & audio quality (LINK)?  Dave
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That very one, Dave, and it's a beauty.

[SonicMan46]

That very one, Dave, and it's a beauty.

      Dave

[aligreto]

The Year of Living Dangerously....




I owe a great debt of gratitude to this film because it was through watching it that I was first introduced to the "Four Last Songs" by R Strauss many years ago now.

[SimonNZ]

I owe a great debt of gratitude to this film because it was through watching it that I was first introduced to the "Four Last Songs" by R Strauss many years ago now.

That was how I first heard of them too. Though they named the wrong song in the end credits. I wonder if later dvd editions corrected that. Showcased really well in that great slow pan across a wall of photojournalism to end on a photo on the far wall of Sigourney.

[LKB]

Finished The Beatles Anthology last night. Still worthwhile on DVD, but l sure wish Messers McCartney and/or Starkey ( or whomever ) would pony up the money for either a bluray or 4k restoration-and-release, this project deserves it.

Of course, tomorrow never knows...

Flying,

LKB

[SonicMan46]

Several more BD additions to my movie collection - films that I've seen before but did not own:

The Men (1950) w/ Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, & Jack Webb - brief synopsis below - Brando in his film debut plays a paraplegic - scenes mainly in a hospital related to convalescence from such injuries - one of the earliest effective portrayals of this issue, IMO - 70% (7/10) rating on Rotten Tomatoes by the critics - I'd have to go 4*/5* and recommend a watch, if only for the reason to see the young Marlon in his initial movie role.

The Wrong Man (1956) w/ Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, & Anthony Quayle; Alfred Hitchcock, director (his only film based on a true story) - synopsis below in second quote - story of mistaken identity that destroys a man's family and life - true story HERE and worth a read, if interested - rating 91% (8.2/10) on Rotten Tomatoes (I'm in agreement) - definitely worth a watch and recommended.  Dave

In his film debut, Marlon Brando plays Ken, a WWII vet paralyzed in combat. The tragedy leaves him embittered and despondent, and from his hospital bed he lashes out at the world, even turning away his girlfriend Ellen. Slowly, his doctor begins to penetrate the soldier's psyche.

Musician Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda) needs money to pay for his wife Rose's (Vera Miles) dental procedure. When he tries to borrow money from their insurance policy, someone at the office mistakes him for a man who had robbed them twice at gunpoint. After Manny is arrested, his defense attorney, Frank O'Connor (Anthony Quayle), works to demonstrate that Manny has an alibi for the crimes. The stress of the case, however, threatens to destroy Manny's family before his name can be cleared.

   

[Karl Henning]

The Wrong Man (1956) w/ Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, & Anthony Quayle; Alfred Hitchcock, director (his only film based on a true story) - synopsis below in second quote - story of mistaken identity that destroys a man's family and life - true story

Yes, rather darker as a result.

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[aligreto]

6 Days....





I remember the original events unfolding.

[Karl Henning]

Lolita, for only the second time. I remember liking it well the first time. This time, I think it a work of genius.

[SonicMan46]

Lolita, for only the second time. I remember liking it well the first time. This time, I think it a work of genius.

Karl - assume that you mean the 1962 version and not the remake in 1997?  I've not seen either in years - Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

Karl - assume that you mean the 1962 version and not the remake in 1997?  I've not seen either in years - Dave

Correct, Dave:  James Mason, Peter Sellers & Shelly Winters.

[Cato]

Lolita, for only the second time. I remember liking it well the first time. This time, I think it a work of genius.

Supposedly, Nabokov rode on school buses (!) to get ideas for the book, and watch the behavior and listen to the language of adolescent girls.

(Imagine telling a principal today: "I'm researching a novel on pedophilia and would like to ride on your school buses and watch the young girls." ) 

However, Salvador Dali may have also been involved!!! 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/nabokovs-lolita-inspired-little-known-story-salvador-dali

[Karl Henning]

Supposedly, Nabokov rode on school buses (!) to get ideas for the book, and watch the behavior and listen to the language of adolescent girls.

(Imagine telling a principal today: "I'm researching a novel on pedophilia and would like to ride on your school buses and watch the young girls." ) 

However, Salvador Dali may have also been involved!!! 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/nabokovs-lolita-inspired-little-known-story-salvador-dali

I have not brought myself to revisit the novel itself.  Yet.

[SonicMan46]

I have not brought myself to revisit the novel itself.  Yet.

Well, I read the book in my teens, probably around the time the first movie was released - cannot remember much but was impressed by the quote below from Wiki - may be time for a re-read - plus, if these films come up on TCM, I'll record to my DVR.  Dave

Lolita is included on TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. It is also fourth on the Modern Library's 1998 list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century, and holds a place in the Bokklubben World Library, a 2002 collection of the most celebrated books in history. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels."

[Karl Henning]

Orson Welles with a stripped-down version of Macbeth: a surreal imagining of the Scottish landscape as something out of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and a castle which is more of a nightmarish cave full of our darkest impulses than a medieval fortress: and of course Scottish accents!

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In the opening credits, I scarcely had time to register enjoyment at Roddy McDowall cast as Malcolm, when I saw Alan Napier cast as a Holy Father!

[Karl Henning]

In the opening credits, I scarcely had time to register enjoyment at Roddy McDowall cast as Malcolm, when I saw Alan Napier cast as a Holy Father!

Kid Roddy!


... I dinna recall A Holy Father among the Dramatis personæ. But the liturgical insert is most apt, of course ... long predating Al Pacino in De Godfather.