If you get hooked, watch them all..it's a series of the man with no name. And for some reason The Good, The Bad and the Ugly reminds me of a movie that I don't think anyone has mentioned here before, but probably everyone has seen. Jesus Christ Superstar. One of the greatest soundtracks of all time. In fact, I'm going to download that right now.
LOL..it starts out slow, but then it builds and becomes very powerful. Bringing up Baby's not for everyone..its an old-school comedy, but You'd probably like The Dirty Dozen..its great - also, another great action movie I really like..
What, that **** is a classic. Good call on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (or Leone's series). I also enjoy Once Upon A Time in the West.
If you didn't like those Hitchcock movies, I'd try Notorious. It might be more up your alley. It's one of my favorite Hitchcock films. Lawrence of Arabia is an awesome movie with some of the greatest cinematography ever. Brazil is from the 80's and is sensational as far set design, look, and shot composition, and set design.
Weird: I like Paul Newman (add The Hustler and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -- even though they bowdlerized out the homosexuality, it's still strangely compelling -- to my favorites above), and Welles, but have never heard of/seen Long Hot Summer. Cool, I'll have to check it out, but, yeah, Welles did not direct that. You found Psycho & Vertigo stilted, but not Barry Lyndon? Try Notorious: Cary Grant huntin' down Nazi MacGuffins, before you give up on Hitchcock. Yeah, Deer Hunter purposefully lulls you to sleep with the drudgery of coal miners' parties, then boom, out of nowhere: flame throwers and roulette chambers. I love the Great Escape, but every time I watch it now I feel like there's a giant cop-out, in that the Holocaust is never once mentioned. I mean, that POW camp was pretty sweet: the imprisoned soldiers were treated well, were given chocolates and tea by the Red Cross. The Nazis in the film are generally sympathetic, being tricked into giving them the camera, etc, and respectful of their prisoners. So, the entire movie's about American & British POWs trying their all to escape Club Med. Meanwhile, just a few campsites over... I really like Bridge on the River Kwai, for the same reasons. The suffering in that movie, the stakes, seem more real. The tragedy of life is that every woman does not talk as fast and wittily as Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby/Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve. Also, comedies. The Thin Man series, especially the first one. Also, anything Preston Sturges made during the World War II years is as funny as anything Chaplin or Woody Allen has ever done, or anything made today.
Speaking of Orson Welles in decline, being forced to read ad copy about a can of peas for a paycheck. One of the greatest screenwriters of all time, being forced to read such "idiotic," "impossible," "meaningless" prose. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OhWM4_pIKVg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> This reveals so much about the penalties of genius.
Great topic. Some of my faves: Bringing Up Baby Arsenic and Old Lace The Philadelphia Story It Happened One Night A Face in the Crowd The Best Years of Our Lives Born Yesterday Harvey Touch of Evil Paths of Glory Shane His Girl Friday Treasure of the Sierra Madre Casablanca They Were Expendable No Time for Sergeants The Third Man My Man Godfrey Duck Soup Horsefeathers
I have seen the trilogy. TGTBTU was simply the most memorable for me. I'll check out Notorious, thanks. Lawrence of Arabia was pretty decent for bringing something different by shooting at exotic locales. Only viewed it once, I gave it a 7/10. Barry Lyndon was awesome. Every scene was art. I'll check out Bridge on the River Kwai, thanks.
Re: Welles, "The Magnificent Ambersons" is my favorite. As for Hitchcock, his Daphne du Maurier adaptations are all good. I like them in this order: Jamaica Inn, The Birds, and Rebecca.
With family in the military, grew up watching a lot of war genre movies Dirty dozen Ice station zebra Battle of Britain Pumping iron Ben Hur Conan Tora Tora Tora The final count down
You'll have to tell me if you can understand Welle's southern accent. I watched it with a gf at first (so didn't rewind...they don't like that), and had to watch it the next day to allow playback to make sure I understood. Welles is Joanne Woodward's rich southern father, and Paul Newman is a "drifter' who gets stuck in the small town by chance and Welle's daughter wants him. awesome
It's being remade with Johnny Depp. I like his movies but his performances have gotten a bit boring for me. I've always envisioned someone like David Thewlis playing Nick and a young Emily Lloyd in the Myrna Loy role.
oh and aghast, and if you like that...trust me on Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Catherine Hephburn in "Suddenly Last Summer". One of the best actress roles I've ever seen...Liz is awesome And if you have seen that movie and agree or disagree...cool, but give me your recommendation on your favorite movies with actresses that floored you.
I always found the Freudian stuff in that movie weird, and kind of overwrought. Sort of like Hitchcock's Spellbound; I just couldn't get into it. I remember thinking Tennessee Williams could do better. Speaking of Taylor & Clift, have you seen A Place in the Sun? Elizabeth Taylor at the height of her youth, and beauty. Montgomery Clift, before the accident, when he was a god. Clift played a drifter (there sure were a lot of drifter-comes-to-town movies back then) who falls in love with Taylor, but knocks up Shelley Winters. He's trapped, and you end up rooting for Clift to kill Winters, and run off with Taylor. A fantastic movie. (Clift is this weird missing link between the old style of acting, and the Brandos/James Deans Method. He's one of the true tragic figures in Hollywood. Clift, presumably drunk, was in a car accident outside a party. Elizabeth Taylor rushed to his aide. Choking, she dug his teeth from his throat, and saved his life. He was disfigured by the accident, and became addicted to painkillers as well. So every movie he's in after the accident, everything about him seems off; he's high, barely able to remember his lines, and his physical perfection long.) I liked Taylor in that, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and especially Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? All those movies: excellent justifications never to get married.
Looking at this, I mostly like actresses who play gifted comediennes, impossible standards of unattainable beauty, altogether fragile, or manipulative women who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Best not to think of that too deeply: Jean Seberg: Breathless Barbara Stanwyck: Double Indemnity Rita Hayworth: Gilda Piper Laurie: The Hustler Moira Shearer: The Red Shoes Veronica Lake: Sullivan's Travels Audrey Hepburn: Breakfast at Tiffany's (if you can ignore Mickey Rooney overbite) Marilyn Monroe: The Misfits (in her beauty's decline, a movie about horses being sold for glue) Hitchcock blondes -- Grace Kelly: Rear Window (most beautiful woman, possibly ever) Ingrid Bergman: Notorious Eva Marie Saint: North by Northwest (though only for the "I never <s>make</s> discuss love on an empty stomach" line) Tallulah Bankhead: Lifeboat (raw power) Myrna Loy: Thin Man Claudette Colbert: It Happened One Night Olivia Hussey: Romeo and Juliet Teri Garr: Young Frankenstein Gena Rowlands: A Woman Under the Influence Jane Fonda: China Syndrome (for less noble reasons, Barbarella) Linda Fiorentino: The Last Seduction (doesn't make the thirty year cutoff) Faye Dunaway: Network Shirley MacLaine: The Apartment (and playing a lesbian thirty years before anyone spoke of that in public in The Children's Hour) Catherine Deneuve: Repulsion Mae West: always played Mae West Dianne Keaton: Annie Hall Holly Hunter: Broadcast News (cutoff) and, most importantly: Dorothy Malone, Acme Book Shop Proprietess, The Big Sleep http://youtu.be/Sqoxk3SrZRw
yep...one of those movies where 30 yrs later you say..."wow, Robert De Niro was in that movie." see...don't rent the directors, if you want to go on a run ... rent the actors. And since we are now talking about Brazil and the '80s...how about Diva!!!!!!! by Jean-Jacques Beineix Apparently, RIGHT NOW, you can view the entire movie from YouTube.."it is showing 2 hours" that's what I'm doing right now. here Jean-Jacques Beineix <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qoYpfeWfvVo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
