Last Movie You Watched

[George]

Nice one, Corey! 

[Harry]

My workout film, and a very good one at that!

[dtwilbanks]

My workout film, and a very good one at that!

That must be some workout!

[Harry]

That must be some workout!

190 minutes to be precise, my muscles are painful, after this movie.

[dtwilbanks]

190 minutes to be precise, my muscles are painful, after this movie.

Holy cow! Why so long?

[Harry]

Holy cow! Why so long?

First 100 minutes weightlifting, and when I saw there was stil 90 minutes to go, I boarded the rower and happily rowed another 90 minutes. Why, well I wanted to see the film, and since it is difficult to sit still for so long, I exercised.

[dtwilbanks]

First 100 minutes weightlifting, and when I saw there was stil 90 minutes to go, I boarded the rower and happily rowed another 90 minutes. Why, well I wanted to see the film, and since it is difficult to sit still for so long, I exercised.

Remind me not to arm wrestle you.

[karlhenning]

Dave, don't arm-wrestle Harry.

[Harry]

Remind me not to arm wrestle you.

Done!
I am a very peacefull person David, so don't worry on my account.

[SonicMan46]

Time for a few 'oldies' chosen from the last dozen or so 'burned' to DVD from the TCM channel - ratings are from Leonard Maltin (*) & Videohound (#), respectively:

The Corn is Green (1945) w/ Bette Davis & some 'newcomers' - 3+* & 3#

The Human Comedy (1943) w/ Mickey Rooney & Frank Morgan (i.e. Wizard of Oz!) - 3+* & 3+# (book image)

The Set-Up (1949) w/ Robert Ryan as a boxer - 3+* & 3+#

   

[Drasko]

Rightfully wearing all the accolades layed on it over the time.

[sidoze]

Rightfully wearing all the accolades layed on it over the time.

maybe, but I liked that least of the 3!

(not including that swimmer bio-pic he made).

[Harry]

Very good this, enjoyed it terribly. Really good television.

[longears]

Very good this, enjoyed it terribly. Really good television.

The book was a rather fascinating memoir, offering some rather interesting insights into the English privileged class a century ago.  Could well have made fodder for an entertaining drama, at least if one's intrigued by the Bloomsbury crowd.

[Kullervo]

Nice one, Corey! 

Yes, it was my first viewing. Loved it, despite its flaws (and a miscast Jimmy Stewart). I wish more movies were as ambitious as Rope.

[Lilas Pastia]

Rightfully wearing all the accolades layed on it over the time.

Glad you liked it. Do you know what version you saw? This film has had a history as checkered as Bruckner's 3rd.

[Drasko]

Glad you liked it. Do you know what version you saw? This film has had a history as checkered as Bruckner's 3rd.

Can't really say. Lenghtwise it was the full version, somewhere 85-87 mins plus credits but it was going under that alternate title Le Chaland qui passe. Just read some of those french articles and they mention a choice of music a lot and I wouldn't know much on that and speak of several different restorations, as I said this was full length but if there were used any alternate takes in those different restorations, again, I wouldn't know. Subtitles were old style white thin ones, so I'm guessing this was one of the mid century restorations.

[Cato]

My wife agreed to watch East of Eden with James Dean, the Steinbeck story as directed by Elia Kazan.

She was at first appalled by the somewhat overwrought and very Schoenbergian score by Leonard Rosenman, who later went on to score real epics like Robocop 2 and Star Trek IV.       The music calms down somewhat as the movie progresses.

Anyway, you have to admit that James Dean was not just a pretty face with great hair.  Marvelous performance of the slightly dull-witted Cal.

His character reminded me of a great number of students in my career who were at the bottom of the class.   

[Kullervo]

[Hector]

This is truly brilliant. I sneaked off work one day to go and watch it at the old Curzon in Mayfair.

The most corruscatingly anti-Catholic film of its time!