Last Movie You Watched

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Cato

Quote from: VonStupp on March 27, 2024, 03:26:53 PMMy wife will occasionally salute ala Sgt. Bilko. She thinks it is hilarious!
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The movie worries a little too much about plot: if it had dropped those worries, you would have had something akin to the comic chaos of a Marx Brothers epic, one fast, jam-in-as-many-jokes-as-possible movie!

Two of the stars are now deceased: Glenne Headley and Phil Hartman.
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: Karl Henning on March 27, 2024, 02:33:20 PMDial of Destiny II: The Search for Antonio Banderas.

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The Puss-in-Boots movies contain some of Antonio's best work!


Those animated movies are very clever and a lot of fun to watch [The fact that there's a cat in there... well, it doesn't hurt.  ;)  ].

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brewski

Yesterday, Beach Birds for Camera (1993, dir. Elliot Caplan), one of the most beautiful dance films I've ever seen. The choreography is by Merce Cunningham, with music by John Cage (Four3).

From the Merce Cunningham Trust:
 
Cunningham said of his choreography for "Beach Birds", "It is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don't have to be exactly together. They can dance like a flock of birds, when they suddenly take off." A work for eleven dancers, the rhythm for "Beach Birds" was much more fluid than other Cunningham dances, so that the sections could differ in length from performance to performance. John Cage composed the music, and painter Marsha Skinner provided the costumes and décor. The dancers were dressed identically in all white leotards and tights, with black gloves. Skinner's backcloth was a white scrim on which the light varied in color and intensity, decided by a lighting plot that was devised using chance methods. While the timings did not relate to the dance structure, the gradual changes of light have been interpreted to imitate those that might occur from dawn to dusk on a beach. "Beach Birds" was adapted for film and called "Beach Birds for Camera."

You can see an excerpt—almost half of the film—here.

-Bruce
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
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