Last Movie You Watched

[Karl Henning]

Any film featuring Por una Cabeza gets a thumbs up from me, regardless.

Seguro!

[milk]

This is just an extraordinary film. I felt like these characters were so real and their lives so vital and moving. I love Mike Leigh. I wish there were more filmmakers like this.

[SonicMan46]

Anatomy of a Murder (1959) w/ James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, George C. Scott, Arthur O'Connell, and Kathryn Grant; Otto Preminger, director.  Short synopsis below - film score by Duke Ellington who briefly appears in the film.  This morning I was looking at various lists of 'Best Court Room' movies and perused my own collection which includes the list of 16 or so at the bottom - main criterion is that court room scenes have to be an important part of the film; there are many others that allude to court or have only brief scenes.  A list of 30 HERE includes many I own; also I've seen many others in these various listings, but have not made purchases - what are some of your favorites in this film genre?  Dave 

P.S. looking at the young Lee Remick in this production is a bonus for us 'ole men'! 

Anatomy of a Murder is an American courtroom drama crime film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Wendell Mayes was based on the 1958 novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver. Voelker based the novel on a 1952 murder case in which he was the defense attorney. The judge was played by Joseph N. Welch, a real-life lawyer famous for dressing down Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings. It has a musical score by Duke Ellington, who also appears in the film. It has been described by Michael Asimow, UCLA law professor and co-author of Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies (2006), as "probably the finest pure trial movie ever made". (Source)

 

12 Angry Men (1957) - Fonda & So Many Others
A Few Good Men (1992) - Cruise, Nicholson, & Moore
A Time to Kill (1996) - McConaughey, Bullock, et al
Amistad (1997) - Hopkins, McConaughey, & Freeman
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Stewart, Remick, Gazzara, et al
Bridge of Spies (2015) - Hanks, Rylance, et al
Inherit the Wind (1960) - Tracy, March, Kelly
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Tracy, Lancaster, & Many
My Cousin Vinny (1992) - Pesci, Tormei, Macchio, et al
Paths of Glory (1957) - Douglas, Menjou, et al
Pelican Brief, The (1993) - Roberts & Washington
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Peck et al
Verdict, The (1982) - Paul Newman & Charlotte Rampling
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Power, Laughton, Dietrich
Young Philadelphians, The (1959) - Newman, Vaughn, & Rush

[Iota]

I'd be posting this in the 'Films that have blown you away recently' thread if such existed. After the various okay but somewhat half-baked films I've seen recently, this felt just so real and penetrating, art in the raw. An unforgettable and brilliantly played grandfather/granddaughter relationship, and an exploration of some untamed regions of the human psyche that lurk just beneath a social veneer, all set against a bewitching Icelandic backdrop. Magnificent filmmaking! I'll be keeping an eye out for any future productions from Hlynur Palmason.

[TheGSMoeller]

Just watched the trailer for this, looks fascinating. Thanks for posting, Iota..


TD: I've been really enjoying the Criterion Channel on my apple tv, tons of great content to explore, and here are a few I watched for the first time recently...Bergmans Through a Glass Darkly (1961), and Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

[Karl Henning]

Flash Gordon ... another I hadn't seen since the year it opened

[Karl Henning]

For the first time, very agreeably tortuous: The Lady from Shanghai

[Madiel]

I'd be posting this in the 'Films that have blown you away recently' thread if such existed. After the various okay but somewhat half-baked films I've seen recently, this felt just so real and penetrating, art in the raw. An unforgettable and brilliantly played grandfather/granddaughter relationship, and an exploration of some untamed regions of the human psyche that lurk just beneath a social veneer, all set against a bewitching Icelandic backdrop. Magnificent filmmaking! I'll be keeping an eye out for any future productions from Hlynur Palmason.

Whereas I did not like this. I found it rather disappointing.

I can't tell you all of the specifics of why 2 years later, I just have a recollection of finding it dour, slow and sometimes unpleasant. Maybe I just like my art to be a little more cooked.

[vers la flamme]

Just watched the trailer for this, looks fascinating. Thanks for posting, Iota..


TD: I've been really enjoying the Criterion Channel on my apple tv, tons of great content to explore, and here are a few I watched for the first time recently...Bergmans Through a Glass Darkly (1961), and Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

I loved Through a Glass Darkly but I haven't seen it in years, when I went through a Bergman kick in college. A Brighter Summer Day looks absolutely phenomenal but I have not seen it.

[milk]

I love Yang. I don't know why I've never clicked with Bergman, though I've never tried this particular film.

[George]

I love Yang. I don't know why I've never clicked with Bergman, though I've never tried this particular film.

Have you tried Winter Light? That is my favorite Bergman film.

[VonStupp]

Flash Gordon ... another I hadn't seen since the year it opened

What an odd collection of actors, and what a strange cinema artifact, not to mention the soundtrack by Queen... A curious vestige of its time that holds a secret inner delight for me.

[SonicMan46]

Come From Away - not really a movie, but a Tony winning Broadway musical just starting to air on Apple TV+ - brief synopsis below but much more at the link for those interested - Susan really enjoyed the show; I was less enthusiastic but thought well done and so appropriate since today is 9/11, twenty years later!  Dave

With an original book, music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy nominees  Irene Sankoff and David Hein,  Come From Away tells the story of 7,000 people stranded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland after all flights into the U.S. are grounded on Sept. 11, 2001. (Source)

[Karl Henning]

What an odd collection of actors, and what a strange cinema artifact, not to mention the soundtrack by Queen... A curious vestige of its time that holds a secret inner delight for me.

Leaving the cinema, I was walking a line between simply having enjoyed it, and conceding some of the objections I heard. I've subsequently concluded that I can simply enjoy it on its own terms

[VonStupp]

Leaving the cinema, I was walking a line between simply having enjoyed it, and conceding some of the objections I heard. I've subsequently concluded that I can simply enjoy it on its own terms

It must have been something in the theatre. I saw a blu-ray of it a number of years ago, and it looked great, even if the spectacle was never convincing.

[TheGSMoeller]

I love Yang. I don't know why I've never clicked with Bergman, though I've never tried this particular film.

I need to see more of Yang's films, embarrassed that Yi-Yi was the only one I've seen of his, and I even saw it when it was released 20 years ago.
Yi-Yi is a masterpiece that consistently reduces me to tears, it's one of the most beautiful, and simple portrayals of a family. It's not that Yi-Yi is sad, but the events, conflicts, and emotions that are displayed are so true to life that its easy to have sympathy for the characters.

Have you tried Winter Light? That is my favorite Bergman film.

Nice, George, Winter Light is in my que, along with a few other Bergman titles I haven't seen.

[vers la flamme]

Have you tried Winter Light? That is my favorite Bergman film.

I believe that was also Bergman's favorite of his works. Anyway, yes, quite a perfect film.

[George]

Nice, George, Winter Light is in my que, along with a few other Bergman titles I haven't seen.

[George]

I believe that was also Bergman's favorite of his works. Anyway, yes, quite a perfect film.

Wow, I hadn't heard that. Thanks for the info.

As sit happens, I have been working through the big Bluray set and Winter Light is up next!

[Iota]

Just watched the trailer for this, looks fascinating. Thanks for posting, Iota..

You're welcome. Hope you get to it sometime and get anything like the pleasure I did from it.