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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Dwayne wrote: »
    This video ran (again) on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in the US last night and while not a “Last Movie Watched” per-say, some of you may find this video of interest.

    Since I’m mostly familiar with Humphrey Bogart’s mid and late career films (i.e., The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, In A Lonely Place, The Caine Mutiny), I found this really informative and will start to seek out several of the films covered here.

    “How Humphrey Bogart Became a Star” by film historian Eddy Von Mueller.


    One of the pleasant surprises of my developing love of “classic” movies over the past 5-6 years, is the discovery that many of the themes and topics continue to be relevant.

    Thanks for posting that, @Dwayne. That was great, and a fascinating look at some of Bogie's lesser discussed early Warners' films.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
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    The Most Dangerous Game 1932 Genre defining Action/Horror classic, 89 years later the movie stands up very well. Zaroff is a precursor to many Bond villains.

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    Zaroff : God made some men kings, some beggars. Me, He made a hunter.

    I remember reading the short story back in school and being so enamored and intrigued by it. Would love to see a proper adaptation of it done again, something simple and survival-ish with an air of mystery.
    I thought the same yesterday whilst watching the film, something down to earth along the lines of First Blood or The Hunted and The Sorcerer both directed by William Friedkin.

    Yes, The Hunted mixed with First Blood would be fantastic. I'm such a huge fan of the former, one of my favorites from Friedkin. It's so damn entertaining.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited February 2021 Posts: 25,092
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    0*a3du31OTsfyFtHxH
    ou8pk-P46WY04Z112-Full-Image_GalleryBackground-en-US-1523326977417._SX1080_.jpg
    The Most Dangerous Game 1932 Genre defining Action/Horror classic, 89 years later the movie stands up very well. Zaroff is a precursor to many Bond villains.

    tmdg32-zaroff1b.jpg
    Zaroff : God made some men kings, some beggars. Me, He made a hunter.

    I remember reading the short story back in school and being so enamored and intrigued by it. Would love to see a proper adaptation of it done again, something simple and survival-ish with an air of mystery.
    I thought the same yesterday whilst watching the film, something down to earth along the lines of First Blood or The Hunted and The Sorcerer both directed by William Friedkin.

    Yes, The Hunted mixed with First Blood would be fantastic. I'm such a huge fan of the former, one of my favorites from Friedkin. It's so damn entertaining.

    Very underrated and not well known film, the two leads are superb. Such a great multi layered confrontation between the two, Jones and Del Torro are excellent.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    In a similar vein, there is also the excellent The Naked Prey starring and directed by Cornel Wilde.
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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    0*a3du31OTsfyFtHxH
    ou8pk-P46WY04Z112-Full-Image_GalleryBackground-en-US-1523326977417._SX1080_.jpg
    The Most Dangerous Game 1932 Genre defining Action/Horror classic, 89 years later the movie stands up very well. Zaroff is a precursor to many Bond villains.

    tmdg32-zaroff1b.jpg
    Zaroff : God made some men kings, some beggars. Me, He made a hunter.

    I remember reading the short story back in school and being so enamored and intrigued by it. Would love to see a proper adaptation of it done again, something simple and survival-ish with an air of mystery.
    I thought the same yesterday whilst watching the film, something down to earth along the lines of First Blood or The Hunted and The Sorcerer both directed by William Friedkin.

    Yes, The Hunted mixed with First Blood would be fantastic. I'm such a huge fan of the former, one of my favorites from Friedkin. It's so damn entertaining.

    Very underrated and not well known film, the two leads are superb. Such a great multi layered confrontation between the two, Jones and Del Torro are excellent.

    Totally agreed. It's something special to me, with great action to boot.

    @RichardTheBruce, love that one, as well, surprised I forgot about it. Wilde battling a virus while shooting that film in the searing heat is incredibly impressive. He's great in it.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    I don't have any streaming services and prefer to see new movies in the theater, so I didn't see many new films in 2020. But here are the 10 best old films I saw for the first time last year, in no order:

    The Gunfighter (1950, Henry King)

    Seven Footprints to Satan (1929, Benjamin Christensen)

    The Wolf House (2018, Joaquin Cociña, Cristóbal León )

    Moby Dick (1956, John Huston)

    Invention for Destruction (1958, Karel Zeman)

    The Family Game (1983, Yoshimitsu Morita)

    The Gang’s All Here (1943, Busby Berkeley)

    Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922, Benjamin Christensen)

    Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-Ho)

    Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @Revelator, I saw The Gunfighter and Memories of Murder for the first time last year, as well, and thought both were brilliant. Eager to get my hands on the Criterions of both.

    I saw Invention for Destruction a few days back, loved it so much but felt The Fabulous Baron Munchausen was a little bit better. He's one of the most visionary, unique directors I've ever experienced, I love his blending of animation and live action. It's flawless.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    In a similar vein, there is also the excellent The Naked Prey starring and directed by Cornel Wilde.
    La_presa_nua.jpg

    This film made a massive impression on me when I saw it on TV at the age of 7...

    I never forgot that scene where the natives encase the guy in mud and cook him...!

    Apparently Wilde was very ill while making the film and it sometimes shows!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @LeonardPine, that it does. Kudos to him for having balls big enough to complete filming in such rough, hot terrain while battling a virus. It certainly adds to the predicament and extreme nature Wilde's character finds himself in. I love that movie.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Jaws 3, what can I say positive, ...... at least it wasn't Jaws 4;The Revenge ;)
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited February 2021 Posts: 2,917
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    I saw Invention for Destruction a few days back, loved it so much but felt The Fabulous Baron Munchausen was a little bit better. He's one of the most visionary, unique directors I've ever experienced, I love his blending of animation and live action. It's flawless.

    I agree with you entirely. I was familiar with the The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, the American dub/edit of Invention for Destruction, but didn't view the original until last year, when it finally arrived on Blu-Ray. I had seen Munchausen several years earlier on a bootleg DVD. I plan to watch the rest of Zeman's films this year. No one will ever make movies with that type of magic ever again.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Film Noir (2007)
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    Imagine an animated film noir directed by Paul Verhoeven at his most Paul Verhoeven, and that will give you a fairly good idea of Film Noir.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Revelator wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    I saw Invention for Destruction a few days back, loved it so much but felt The Fabulous Baron Munchausen was a little bit better. He's one of the most visionary, unique directors I've ever experienced, I love his blending of animation and live action. It's flawless.

    I agree with you entirely. I was familiar with the The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, the American dub/edit of Invention for Destruction, but didn't view the original until last year, when it finally arrived on Blu-Ray. I had seen Munchausen several years earlier on a bootleg DVD. I plan to watch the rest of Zeman's films this year. No one will ever make movies with that type of magic ever again.

    Too right. It's something special. And, for example, the fact that Invention for Destruction was released in 1958 is even more mind-boggling to me. So impressive. I have got to pick up his recent trilogy that Criterion put out, I'm eager to get my hands on it now.
  • ThrasosThrasos
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    Thunderball wrote: »
    Ocean’s 13, 2007. I watched all three yesterday, actually.
    I really like that movie too! A few nights ago I watched Wall Street. Hadn't seen it in years. I suppose a few reasons why I wanted to watch it was because I invest some, also because of the recent "short squeeze" market activity in the U.S., and because of Hal Holbrook's passing. Also fun to see and feel the 80s vibe in it and to hear Stewart Copeland's soundtrack, which I think really worked.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    The Internecine Project (1974)
    A James Coburn espionage thriller. Coburn has a group of informants, who he has
    to dispose of. He brilliantly gets them to take each other out on one night, but as
    always there are a few twists in the story.
    I found it on a YouTube channel " Flick Vault " which has many free movies.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Tonight I watched The Guns of Navarone , great WW2 adventure story.
  • cooperman2cooperman2 Uk
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    The 1977 John Frankenheimer thriller Black Sunday. Great performances from Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller, but time has not been very kind to this film. Really quite dated looking and far to long.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Doomwatch (1972) an ecological thriller about pollution affecting a small island.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    cooperman2 wrote: »
    The 1977 John Frankenheimer thriller Black Sunday. Great performances from Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller, but time has not been very kind to this film. Really quite dated looking and far to long.

    Have to say, I watched it recently, and still found it very enjoyable. Frankenheimar does long movies well, he draws you in with strong characters.
    And besides, its worth the wait for that nail biter of a climax!
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    THE THING (1982)
    Remember vividly coming out of the cinema, dazed at Rob Bottins effects. Went back to see it again and appreciated John Carpenters taut direction and Bill Lancasters paranoid screenplay. Superb horror movie, really well made with Dean Cundeys excellent cinematography and a very Carpenteresque score from none other than Ennio Morricone. Great cast, and some chilling scenes among Bottins eye popping (literally!!) mechanical effects! The celebrated and very tense blood testing sequence still makes me jump!
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
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    I Could Go On Singing, 1963. Judy Garland’s last film. It was marvelous (as she always is).

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Breakheart Pass (1975)
    An Alistair MacLean Western, all the usual MacLean elements.
  • R1s1ngs0nR1s1ngs0n France
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    Can't believe it took me 46yrs to finally see Gilliam's masterpiece, but better late than never.
    Immediately ordered the Criterion blu-ray as this film has been haunting me since and I can't wait to watch all the fascinating extras that accompany it.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Inferno (2016)
    Better than I remembered it, and odd to see a film about a Virus. with Nightmare visions of hundreds of bodies stacked across city squares.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    Continuing from Class Action and Extreme Measures, I have been on a Gene Hackman mega-marathon:

    Get Shorty
    Runaway Jury
    Narrow Margin
    Mississippi Burning
    The Chamber
    Twilight
    Prime Cut

    An enjoyable line-up of films. I think Get Shorty and Twilight are the ones I liked the most, while The Chamber and Prime Cut I liked the least.

    My latest watch, Prime Cut (my 21st Hackman film) I found too sparse in its storytelling, though full of interesting, disturbing images, and its surreal tone is engrossing. Splendid music score by Schifrin. Lee Marvin is always great to watch, as is Hackman, though his screen time is too brief for my taste.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    Continuing from Class Action and Extreme Measures, I have been on a Gene Hackman mega-marathon:

    Get Shorty
    Runaway Jury
    Narrow Margin
    Mississippi Burning
    The Chamber
    Twilight
    Prime Cut

    An enjoyable line-up of films. I think Get Shorty and Twilight are the ones I liked the most, while The Chamber and Prime Cut I liked the least.

    My latest watch, Prime Cut (my 21st Hackman film) I found too sparse in its storytelling, though full of interesting, disturbing images, and its surreal tone is engrossing. Splendid music score by Schifrin. Lee Marvin is always great to watch, as is Hackman, though his screen time is too brief for my taste.

    Love 'Prime Cut' , its meant to be a black comedy, but works better as an action movie. Marvin looks so cool, and his final assault on Hackmans farm is thrilling!
    And, yes, love Lalo Schifrins whistling score!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,173
    mattjoes wrote: »
    Continuing from Class Action and Extreme Measures, I have been on a Gene Hackman mega-marathon:

    Get Shorty
    Runaway Jury
    Narrow Margin
    Mississippi Burning
    The Chamber
    Twilight
    Prime Cut

    An enjoyable line-up of films. I think Get Shorty and Twilight are the ones I liked the most, while The Chamber and Prime Cut I liked the least.

    My latest watch, Prime Cut (my 21st Hackman film) I found too sparse in its storytelling, though full of interesting, disturbing images, and its surreal tone is engrossing. Splendid music score by Schifrin. Lee Marvin is always great to watch, as is Hackman, though his screen time is too brief for my taste.

    Kristen Stewart was smoking in that one. ;-)
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    What an odd film. It's like the typical Liam Neeson action thriller, with a.... strange sense of humour. I don't know if I completely understood the humour, I might need to rewatch this.

    1. Non-Stop (2014)
    2. Unknown (2011)
    3. Taken (2008)
    4. Taken 2 (2012)
    5. Cold Pursuit (2019)
    6. Taken 3 (2014)

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Loved that one as a black comedy, @MajorDSmythe. One of my Neeson favorites.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Loved that one as a black comedy, @MajorDSmythe. One of my Neeson favorites.

    I still haven t seen this one, but the original was very entertaining.
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