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THE LOCAL STIGMATIC. I actually found this 50-minute movie on YouTube, which is fair since it appears to be hard to get otherwise. I thought the film was mesmerizing. Only by the end I managed to understand, to some extent, the eccentric worldview of the lead characters and the "game" they play. The quirky dialogue between Al Pacino and Paul Guilfoyle's characters is fantastic, full of curveballs and unfinished, fragmented thoughts, which creates a certain tension and gets you engaged, as you have to do a bit of work to keep up with the conversation. This is a movie about the spaces between things, about the stuff that's left unsaid. It's based on a play by English author Heathcote Williams, which Al Pacino had performed on stage on two occasions before turning it into a film (in fact, Pacino says it's a filmed play, rather than a film based on a play, and there is some truth to that). Here's a great interview with Pacino in which he discusses the project at length, among other things:
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/al-pacino/
And the movie itself, if a YouTube video doesn't bother you:
Apparently written before The Exorcist was released, but the similarities do betray this (that is, when it doesn't feel like the Satanic movies that Hammer were releasing around this time). It's more talky than I was prepared for, with the exorcism taking place in the last 15 minutes or so, and then the film ends abruptly.
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. Exorcismo (1975)***
9. Vengeance Of The Zombies (1973)
10. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
Heat can’t be beat.
The animation is as good as it gets. The story is not.
Never seen it before. It was really good.
Another Lana Turner movie arrived in the mail today. :D
Heck. I should've done my research. :(
Lana Turner's scenes had been deleted from this film leaving only about a second of screen time. :( :(
C'est la vie. Still it's an entertaining romp as Dennis O'Keefe plays an attorney attempting to screw people over. Big Dennis O'Keefe fan.
That said, there's an amazing publicity still of Lana from this film left.......................
Still perhaps my favourite Kubrick, and Issur Demsky s greatest role ever. One of my favourite sequences is in the middle where Antoninus is reciting a poem, and the subsequent conversation between Spartacus and Varinia. Beautiful both visually and thematically.
One of the few Kubrick films I've still yet to see.
The only one I don t care for is his first, Fear and Desire. I have all the others, and am going through them again. A Kubrathon.
Another of my favourite Kubricks.
Now that the great Walter Hill is back ( at 80 yrs of age!) I decided to watch one of his earlier films! This is still a fantastic movie, about a group of National Guards who run foul of some local cajun, after a joke goes wrong! Hill ratchets up the tension as the group try to survive! A stellar cast, Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine ( love his speech about how long it will take a search party to assemble and find them!), Fred Ward and Peter Coyte, beautifully shot by Andrew Laszlo on location ( never has a swamp looked so good!) And with a fabulous score by the legendary Ry Cooder, it also has some terrific cajun music accompanying the tense climax! Love this film! Bonus feature on the bluray has a great interview with Hill, dismissing those stories that the plot was an allegory of Vietnam!
Dr Strangelove was the first Kubrick I watched, as a kid, but this is the one I have watched the most. I have lost count a long time ago. The blend of story, picture and sound here is genius. I never tire of it, and I can only say that about a handful of films. To think that this was a flop when it came out, and that the critics labelled it boring and unimaginative...They were the ones who were boring and unimaginative. At least it was a hit with the hippies and filmmakers.
Paul Naschy adds 'hunchback' to the list of characters that he played. Take The Bride Of Frankenstein, and cross it with The Hunchback of Notre Damme, and make the story bleak.
Naschy is Goto, the hunchback of the title. Goto works as an assistant in a morgue, and he is bullied by everyone around him, man and child. Everyone expect the beautiful Ilse, who shows him affection. Goto falls in love with her, but any chance of a relationship is doomed, Ilse is terminally ill and succumbs to tuberculosis. Goto is befriended by a mad scientist who tells Goto that he can make (create) another Ilse using human tissue. The thing they end up creating develops an increasing taste for human flesh.
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. Hunchback Of The Morgue (1973)***
9. Exorcismo (1975)
10. Vengeance Of The Zombies (1973)
11. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
Agreed, fantastic thriller!
The Sound of 007 Documentary.
Amazing.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16433236/
Ana de Armas, however, was brilliant in the role, expectedly so.
I was really surprised as to how much funnier I found the sequel as compared to the original AF movie. I loved about every line spoken (maybe amplified by my third glass of wine, but hey...) and even forgot about Ken Adams' achievements... Some of the scenes (especially those with Pugsley and Wednesday at the summer camp) are really priceless. I'm still chuckling writing this. Shows that a sequel can be better than the original.
Still one of Carpenter's best despite all the bigger, more polished fare he would get into in the 80s. You just can't beat the atmosphere of this film. It actually feels a lot like a zombie film without the zombies. Just one line of dialogue and it very easily could have been a zombie film.
I agree, Family Values improved upon the first, and the summer camp scenes, especially the revised, historically correct Thanksgiving play, are really what give this film the edge. But I think the first film is still pretty good in its own right. I'm curious, what did Ken Adams do for the second film?
What he (Ken Adam, not Adams - I misspelled myself in my previous post by putting the apostrophe in the wrong place - now corrected) always did...he was the production designer. It was one of his final works. Some of it was at an exhibition in Munich that I saw in 2015. See his view of the Addams Family mansion below, which was created for the overhead scenes. (It's a model in a glass showcase, and the flash of my camera is reflected).)
I went in to this film as a fan of the games, although I have fallen in and out of love with them over the years. I wasn't expecting an adaption, but once I got passed my mindset of "that's not the Animus, the Animus looks nothing like that", I started to enjoy the film.
Personally I thought it was a masterpiece, but I'm in love with all Robert Eggers films. To be honest, I think the general audience isn't used to Ingmar Bergman-style directing and pacing anymore. Which is understandable, but I hope Eggers finds enough funding for many more arthouse projects in the future after losing money on The Nortman... He's currently working on a Nosferatu remake. Both previous versions are very near and dear to my heart, so I hope he does the legacy justice.
Can we discuss series as well in this topic? Because I watched The Dropout with Amanda Seyfried and I wanna share my enthusiasm with someone.
A loved one going missing abroad isn't a new concept in movies, but Gina Carano can dish out a beat down, and look convincing doing so (not a surprise).