Just finished watching To Kill a Mockingbird
Haven't seen it in many years.
Must be in the top ten best movies of all time.
Just finished watching To Kill a Mockingbird
Haven't seen it in many years.
Must be in the top ten best movies of all time.
Agree with many movies here. Casablanca for me and All quiet on the western front. But for sheer malevolence Robert Ryan's portrayal of Mr Claggert in Billy Budd must rate as one of the best. The evil expressed in his face and eyes is one of the best acting performances I have seen. A classic clash of good and evil. Very underrated.
Also featuring a very young Sybil Sheperd (but you don't get to see her norks in this one despite a tease scene) I watched The Heartbreak Kid 1972 after googling Jeannie Berlin from The Night Of
Quirky offbeat comedy. Echoes of The Graduate. Not quite in the same league but an interesting snapshot of the vibe from that era.
I watched Catch-22 lastnight.
Not really a classic.
The 'zany' humour is a bit patchy but it has quite a few engagingly surreal scenes.
But the movie is worth flicking through just for the fantastic footage of the B-25. The director got hold of 17 flying examples and made great use of them.
This is also the plane that took off from USS Hornet to carry out the first bombing of mainland Japan. It is not carrier capable so it had to fly on to China to crash-land where some of the crew were captured by the Japanese occupation forces.
One silver cloud from enduring the painful Killing of a Sacred Deer was that I was reminded to rewatch Groundhog Day which I had been meaning to do for ages.
I remembered it as a funny movie from the 90s and wondered if it had aged well.
I think it has more than aged well. I think it has matured into a classic movie that not only has genuinely fresh humour but resonates with timeless philosophical themes.
It is February 2nd this Friday so if you are staying in then watch punxatawney Phil strut his stuff in his 25th anniversary year...
We Canucks have Wiarton Willie:
Wiarton Willie is the title given to that of an albino Canadian groundhog who lives in the community of Wiarton in Bruce County, Ontario. Every February 2, on Groundhog Day, Willie takes part in the local Wiarton Willie Festival.
His role is to predict whether there will be an early spring. Although the original Wiarton Willie died, the Wiarton Groundhog Day celebrations continue each year with successors of the original Willie, also referred to as "Wiarton Willie."
Groundhog Day, featuring Wiarton Willie, is a popular annual festival in Wiarton and is similar to events in other locations in North America.
A midwinter celebration involving an animal with predictive powers was an element of Celtic culture. The link between weather prediction and the day is said to have been inspired by an old Scottish couplet:
"If Candlemas Day is bright and clear/ There'll be two winters in the year."
Patton - 1970
An excellent antidote to the insipid Churchill movie I had the misfortune to watch recently.
Epic biopic of the original mad-dog cowboy US general who inspired all the caricatures of mad dog cowboy US generals you have ever seen in popular culture.
George C. Scott is perfectly cast.
Patton is a classic
Nixon Oliver Stone
The Third Man Carol Reid's corrupt Vienna
Closely Observed Trains Menzel's masterpiece
Get Carter Michael Caine's best Role
Most of my flim noir have already been cited I'd give 10/10 to
Double Indemnity, The Third Man and Casablaca
Another Bogie classic
To have and have not
where he first meets Lauren Bacall
Others that I am always happy to re-watch when no tv
The Big Sleep
Ipcress File
Bunuels Viridiana
Viridiana (1961) - IMDb
The Great Escape
Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios" (1988) - IMDb
Withnail and I
Tora Tora Tora
and if only one choice
MALTESE FALCON
Not sure if you'd call it classic, but I though Il Postino had a lot of charm.
I thought we didn't have to edit out the "s" anymore ? I can't even edit that post above.
Anyway, the whole movie seems to be on Youtube :
The Hustler in reality was a Jackie Gleason movie with Newman supporting. Gleason's riveting tour de force around the pool table is pure joy to watch..
..and I'll watch it again. Thanks for the reminder...
https://www.limetorrents.info/The-Hu...nt-875814.html
( Gleason was very highly respected in Hollywood, had a photographic memory - read the script once (for his own show) - the rest of the cast rehearsed - and then he came in and did it in one 'live' take (usually). An excellent biography is available.
I saw this at the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd ..5 o'clock show 1978.
There was a woman with her small son in front of me and when Glenn Ford dropped dead in the field I could see the woman crying - it was very touching - the movie had hit it's mark (one of many).
Thanks to Christopher Reeve RIP, the perfect Superman.
The lovely Margot Kidder RIP.
And Richard Donner who beautifully put it all together.
If you like that, you're gonna love this..
https://www.limetorrents.info/The-Dr...-HDTV-x264-TLA[rarbg]-torrent-6948293.html
It's an Albert Finney 'performance' with Tom Courtney - no shagging (unfortunately) or fightin' (fortunately) just backstage bitchin'
This is another in a line of 'books too big for the screen' that didn't and couldn't work ( another is Tom Wolfe's 'Bonfire Of The Vanities' killed on celluloid by Brian De Palma egotistically punching above his weight ).
They both failed to learn from the master David Lean who took a 'section' from a biography, diligently worked on it for a year and then shot one of the greatest epic films ever - 'Lawrence Of Arabia'.
Read the books 'Catch 22' and 'Bonfire Of The Vanities' - scathing social commentary of the time, riotous, thoroughly enjoyable and you'll see the rich detail on the page, much to big to cram into a mere two hours of film.
Sorry wrong torrent link, that is a new TV version with Anthony Hopkins & Ian McKellen correct link with Finney not available and P.B. is down again
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085461/
..or you could try this...
https://www.limetorrents.info/Under-...t-6576323.html
Sorry for reaching into the past to respond to this post.
I had never seen this movie nor had I ever read the book it was based upon either. I found both the book and the film to be an interesting glimpse into Southern concepts of race and justice of another era. I found the book far superior to the movie because the events characters were developed in more detail. As cinema I found it somewhat lacking in production values not unlike the TV dramas of the time.
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