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The Daddy of disaster movies, the effects still look good today. Although it is a
Product of its time. A bit dated obviously but I loved this since first seeing it many
years ago when BBC 2 would show a season of classic sci-fi movies.
Where I'm from, there is a store that sells DVDs of vintage European and US films. It has existed for 40 years. I remember they used to sell out of a kiosk in a shopping mall, among other places. At one point I thought they had gone broke, but later I was pleasantly surprised to find out they are still in business, only as an online store. My parents bought plenty of films in that store, French and Italian for the most part. Mastroianni, Loren, Delon, Belmondo...
Great to hear that you were introduced to so much fabulous cinema when you were younger :)
I hope I can pass on such things too in the future (together with my Bond fandom of course ;) )
As far as the sixties are concerned I have also seen more Italian and French films than anything else. My favourite directors from the era are Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti, and my favourite actors Alain Delon and Monica Vitti.
On a sidenote I’d like to add that there was also great stuff coming from Czechoslovakia at that time. If you’re interested I’d recommend Closely Watched Trains, The Cremator and Marketa Lazarová.
Have seen the first two movies, but have never actually seen this one until now!
Richard Roundtrees supercool private eye John Shaft heads to Africa to break up a slavery ring, led by Frank Finlay! Helmed by John (The Blue Max) Guillermin, and part filmed in Ethiopia , its not up to the standard of the first two, but its still an enjoyable thriller with some neat action in the finale and a good score by Johnny Pate! Shafts Big Score still remains by favourite though!
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge. An oldie but a goodie, excellent cast and yet another film in which poor old Sean Bean dies, and only three years later Pierce would
be killing him too ;)
It takes some getting used to its style, but it’s definitely worth it. Beautiful landscapes, gorgeous black-and-white cinematography, a magnificent score and a captivating story, both thematically as well as narratively.
Having said that, it’s easier to start with Closely Watched Trains or The Cremator.
Edit: if you decide to give any of these films a go, please share your thoughts on them, I’d love to know if you liked it :)
Excellent, thanks, I'll be sure to.
In all fairness, I didn't pay too much attention to those films when I was a kid, but I suppose they seeped into my brain one way or another, as I now find myself more interested in them. The other day I watched a couple of Delon films after Le marginal-- Parole de flic and Ne reveillez un flic qui dort. Solid fun. And as we talked before, I've got Visconti's L'innocente to watch. I can also think of several others that are on my radar.
Speaking of Le professionnel, they were playing Chi Mai on Belmondo's funeral. Delon was there. Jean Dujardin, too. It was quite emotional.
I'll make a note on those Czech films!
I saw Macron’s speech on Belmondo a few days ago. He said there was something of Belmondo in every Frenchman. Or something along those lines. Quite right in any case, Belmondo was a showman for every kind of cinemagoer. Few actors were so successful both in experimental art as well as in entertaining pulp.
On another note, “Chi Mai” is one of Ennio Morricone’s very best cues and that’s saying a lot.
Sorry that I keep on rambling about these films. I can talk hours about Belmondo, Delon, etc. I’ll stop for now ;)
We're talking about Anger Management (2003).
I had bought the Blu-ray disk ages ago (in June 2010, to be exact), had sort of postponed it eternally and decided tonight I'd finally give it a try while my wife was in an extended phone call anyway. Wrong choice. I'll now go back sitting across from her on the sofa and listening (or not really) to her conversation instead.
Shang Chi and the 10 rings.
Great fun, getting the feeling he may pop up in Dr Strange 2?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Holy crap was this GREAT. Paul Bettany, Maggie Q, & Karl Urban-??? It doesn't get much better than this for contemporary CGI-heavy movies....
I need to upgrade. Currently I only have a VHS copy of this masterpiece. :(
As for the last movie watched: not really a movie, but the documentary: “Film-Noir: Bring Darkness to Light” (2006?). While it is included as an extra on the “Gun Crazy” (1950) blu-ray I see someone has posted it to YouTube recently.
as part of my Twinpeaksathon.
Saw the trailer for it! Is it any good?
I believe this was a project long in gestation, but Clint wanted to wait until he was the right age!!!!
That's how you shoot a car chase!
Terence Young directed a cast of several Bond alumni (Gert Fröbe, Claudine Auger, Anthony Dawson)...and of course, Christopher Plummer as the protagonist and other great actors (Romy Schneider, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard...as well as Harry Meyen, Romy's husband (or husband-to-be) at the time, who tragically committed suicide 13 years later. IMDb Trivia states that Terence Young actually wanted Ursula Andress opposite Plummer, but I'm not sure if that was instead of Claudine or of Romy.
The movie is about real-life safecracker Eddie Chapman, who after getting caught on the island of Jersey offers to spy for the occupying force, i.e. the Nazis, before then going back to Britain to become a double agent, and then back again...motivation: money.
The movie is not perfect. Basically a lot of stunt casting for the time, But a solid effort. Just too bad that the Blu-ray (which I had hoped would improve on a 2003 DVD) is really inferior. Bad picture (albeit far better than the DVD's), lousy Dolby 2.0 mono sound (especially the English soundtrack), and at one point (a scene with Romy Schneider and Fröbe) the sound switches to German (maybe that scene was omitted for distribution in English-speaking countries?). By this flaw, we found the German soundtrack was actually the better option acoustically, especially since the majority of the protagonists would actually have been speaking German anyway.
But we still liked the film (as I did before, or I wouldn't have wanted to get a better copy of it in the first place).
A fantastic performance from Sean Connery in this Hitchcock Classic
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
So instead of seeing Thunderball on the big screen, the main character goes into some nightclub next door.
Very disappointed, zero stars!
One of my favourite Bond documentaries, I always get emotional watching this one.