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Funny, that's one of the only bits I recall as well, along with the DMX self-promotion as his song blares while he begins an ATV chase throughout a city.
Oh, and how could I forget the Gabrielle Union striptease? That scene certainly made an, err, impression on me in my early teens.
The Seventh voyage of Sinbad : Arabian Nights tale, with Kerwin Mathews, the lovely Kathryn Grant, and monsters created by the great Ray Harryhausen. Nice movie, with a great score by Bernard Herrmann. The skeleton scene is top notch.
Dracula : the 1979 version by John Badham, starring Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier (and, really, a great cast, including future Doctor Sylvester McCoy and Bond alumni Donald Pleasance). The first Dracula I saw, and some 50 years later, it still holds up pretty well.
Iron Man 2 : Not bad, but doesn't hold a candle to the first one. Or the third.
Today, Dead of Night.
I don't remember that. I might have to re-watch it.... for scientific research. :-B
China O'Brien (1988)
Having established herself as the undisputed Queen of martial arts in Hong Kong, Cynthia Rothrock returned to the US for this, her first Western film, a Walking Tall esque action thriller. From the legendary Golden Harvest studio, and the director of Enter The Dragon.
Rothrock is a cop in the city, who after mistakenly killing a teen, quits the force and heads back to her home town out in the sticks. She gets there, only to find her father, the local Sheriff, fighting a losing battle to clean up the streets. The streets are awash with filth and corruption. She ends up having to take over as Sheriff, and clean up the town in her own way.
There's a little cheese, and some lapses in logic, but it's a case of sit back and enjoy this slice of old school action, from an era when a film could become a hit when released on video.
Another masterpiece from Mr Reggio. Looking forward to his new one.
Filmed at the same time as the first, but released a year later. You've heard of snow blindness? Well, thanks to this film, I am now suffering from Denim Blindness.
The first Dracula adaptation.
Saw this with a live organ in a Manhattan church a couple of years ago, it was cool!
Just watched My Cousin Vinny for the first time last night, glad Tomei won the Oscar.
See How they Run pretty good murder mystery/light comedy based around the Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap.
Superb film I have the 4K restoration boxset, one of the most stunning films I have ever seen.
His first American production.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
I think this idea is reinforced by the people's attempts to pursue the signal emitted by the monolith they find on the moon, regardless of the (albeit ambiguous) negative results of interacting with it. It even seems like in the Jupiter and Infinite Beyond segment, they even went so far as to show some of the scenes of the desert from the Dawn of Man segment, but in distorted and inverted colours. Also, the black monoliths could represent the black seas of infinity.
It seems like Dave possibly both goes mad (Stephen King usually describes people going mad/catatonic by aging rapidly and having their hair instantly go grey) from the revelation of the terrifying vistas of infinity, as well as flees from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age (the comfort of the bedroom, being reborn as the Star Child, and being embraced by a new Dark Age, again represented by the black monolith.
Obviously HAL sort of represents the idea of Singularity, when manmade AI no longer require man and therefore dispose of it. I think it was clever that Frank and David we're basically interchangeable and did everything by the book, including when they were discussing disconnecting HAL. In a way, it made the two of them the robots, and HAL the intuitive character improvising as he went along.
Clearly a film way ahead of it's time.
EDIT: Just read that Kubrick's original plan was to have the Star Child at the very end detonate all the nuclear weapons above the Earth (as seen in the jump cut from the bone flying upwards), but decided it was too similar to the ending of Strangelove. I feel like this further supports the above.
Dead of Night : Great 1940s movie.The last sketch has been referenced many times since then (including in an episode of Mrs.Columbo, of all places). The second one was based on a terrible criminal case. And the penultimate one was a brief moment of levity, with a good pairing of actors. Highly recommanded.
Johnny English : Or how Her Majesty's most bumbling secret agent manages to save the day, in spite of himself. There were a few laugh out loud moments, but at times, it was quite predictable (I knew that he would go to the wrong building). Still, distracting enough.
Next : Top Hat.
Excellent analysis. I would highly recommend reading the book that was written along with the film's script, which if I remember correctly, keeps the nuclear ending, among some other interesting differences. And then I highly recommend looking into some of the excellent research into how Kubrick and Clark agreed and then disagreed. Some excellent insight into two masters of their craft collaborating.
aka All Quiet on the Western Front,
the recently released German version that is.
Quite frankly, one of the best war films I’ve ever seen. Beautifully shot and hauntingly scored, this film illustrates perfectly how young boys were manipulated into getting gruesomely slaughtered for the ‘fatherland’ with false promises of heroism and glory.
Stories such as these are worth repeating over and over, until we, as a human race, finally get it. Talking about false hope.
Highly recommended.
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You get one (and only one) guess at what my favorite movie of all time is?!!!!! :D
For the record, the following are just a sample of the online info available on ‘2OO1: A Space Odyssey’.
https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy-showmanship/2001-50th - a nice overview of how the film was released opens this piece. Note, this was long before the days of 3,500 movie screens on an opening weekend. As you will see from the premiere dates, it took a long…long time.
http://www.2001italia.it/ - a one stop website for some rather obscure 2OO1 information including uncredited cast members.
“Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clark, and the Making of a Masterpiece” by Michael Benson – less a “how to” book, but a true biography of the film’s life from pre-production to final release and critical reaction.
If you can find a used copy on ebay or Amazon, I also highly recommend the following:
“The Making of Kubrick’s 2OO1” by Jerome Agel (1970) – a contemporary look at the film’s history and critic and public reactions to it (note: the letters to Kubrick section are both funny and poignant).
“The Lost Worlds of 2OO1” by Arthur C. Clark (1972) – Clark details some of the alternative concepts and story lines that didn’t make it into either the novel or film.
Finally, several years ago, Taschen published "The Making of Kubrick's 2OO1".
There is a lot more out there (my sagging bookcase is evidence of that), but these are some of the highlights.
I will say the Cinema Tyler series is excellent and one of the things I reference often. And a very easy watch.
His last film.
Top three Murnaus that I have seen:
1 Faust
2 Tabu
3 Sunrise
Honourable mention goes to Nosferatu.
A Giallo, Naschy style. A drifter with a very murky past, is hired by 3 beautiful sisters to act as a handyman around their country home. At the same time, a local police officer is investigating the brutal killings of blue-eyed blondes, whose eyes are extracted by their murderer.
I could have done without the pig scene. Thankfully, I was aware of it beforehand, so was ready to fast forward through that scene.
1. Panic Beats (1983)
2. Werewolf Shadow (1971)
3. Human Beasts (1980)
4. Horror Rises From The Tomb (1973)
5. Crimson (1976)
6. Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf (1972)
7. Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
***8. Blue Eyes Of The Broken Doll (1973)***
9. Exorcismo (1975)
10. Vengeance Of The Zombies (1973)
11. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
Spanish style giallo, amarillo I suppose :)), how does it compare to the Italian ones?
Considering that it isn't a legitimate Giallo, I think it stacks up very well in comparison, actually.