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I just watched OKLAHOMA on a much better TV than I've seen it on and it was like seeing it for the first time. The colors were beautiful and the Arizona landscape (standing in for OK) were beautiful. As was the music, of course-- Gordon Macrae's about the top of singing movie actors, in this style of music, anyway.
I lived in Oklahoma years ago and saw an outdoor production of the musical that played every summer. Probably still does, for all I know. Anyway, you'd think it was a rock concert the way the audience cheered when the title song was performed.
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was on TCM this morning (for 4th of July Weekend) and I couldn't help but watch it again. Terrific movie! And the quintessential Jimmy Stewart performance--if you don't like him here, you just don't like him. (Spoiler alert--I like him quite a bit).
Claude Rains, naturally, steals the entire movie.
Hmmm. Not to take anything away from Claude Rains, but I always thought Jean Arthur was the bandit in this case.
Yeah, Jean Arthur is just terrific in every scene she's in. The sequence where she gets drunk (with the actor whose name I forget but love, especially in 'It's a Wonderful Life') is really great.
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quote:Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid: Singing in the Rain. Just bought it on DVD.
One of my favorite movie ever. O'Conner is briliant in his "Make 'Em Laugh scene, and Gene Kelly is my favorite singer/dancer from that genre of actors.
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quote:Originally posted by Mystery Lad: Blacula- I disliked VERTIGO the first time I saw it as well. Decades later, I watched the restored version, with much better color and loved it. I'm sure the print made a difference, but I think I wasn't mature enough to 'get' it.
In particular, the scene where Kim Novak emerges from that foggy green light, her appearance and demeanor changed to meet Stewart's character's specifications is a haunting, beautiful piece of cinematic work.
A few years from now, watch it again and see if you don't find a new appreciation for it. I'll bet you do.
I will definitely do that Mystery Lad. There was enough in there that I could see what people liked about it but I think maybe I just wasn't in the mood or was expecting something more or something. I actually have it on DVD somewhere so I will give it another go sometime.
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quote:Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid: I also saw the last few minutes of The Women, the original, last night. I saw it at the nursing home once before and I've gotta say, it's pretty funny.
I have always wanted to see that movie (the original, not the apparently terrible remake). It looks like a hoot.
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: BTW, even though The Philadelphia Story is one of the greatest movies of all time, maybe it's not for Blacula. Between Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Katherine Hepburn, it's pretty much a weird distinctive voice extravaganza!
I have always wanted to see The Philadelphia Story. Maybe I can watch it with subtitles?
But seriously, the "weird" voices of Grant, Stewart, et al aren't enough to make me dislike a film. Just wonder where on earth they came from to get accents like that. lol
P.S. Does anyone think Tony Curtis was copying Cary Grant's voice when he was pretending to be the rich, yacht owner in Some Like It Hot? I always chuckled at the voice he used in that movie but now think it had a remarkable similarity to Grant's. Or is that accent just typical of a certain region of the USA? Like Hepburn's New England (I think) accent?
Tony Curtis is a huge Cary Grant protegee, so I'd say "yes". Grant's accent is some sort of English accent mutated by living/working in America (it may be "English trying to sound Amerian").
Stewart's from Eastern Pennsylvania, as I recall, but I don't think that has much to do with his voice.
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^Great film! And the final sequence is FREAKING SCARY!
I watched that when I was like 12 and it was the first time I learned what the words 'serial killer' meant.
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Same here Cobie. I watched it when I was 14 and couldn't sleep that night.
Watched Shutter Island a few nights ago. It was pretty good. While I'm not a big Leo fan I am a big Martin Scorcese (sp) fan. Beautiful film (shots, music, etc). The overall story? Pretty good.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Saw it last night and LOVED it. Nice to see Gilliam using modern special effects in such a glorius way. Good acting all the way around. My wife was pleased with the 4 good looking guys in it.
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Saw Predators the other week. I really quite liked it. The last say 20 minutes, especially
Click Here For A Spoilerthe whole Topher Grace thing
were a bit weaker than the very fun/exciting first two-thirds but not enough to dull my enjoyment of it. Definitely my favourite Predator movie since the first one.
Next on my Must-See list - Inception.
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I saw Inception. I liked it but wasn't in love with it. Although, I did see it at the midnight show and was extremely tired from the day before. I started explaining the movie to someone and realized how brilliant it really was. I saw the movie again and now I'm obsessed with it.
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Tonight I watched "Before Night Falls," Julian Schnabel's adaptation of Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas's autobiography.
I have to say, although I pretty much detest Schnabel's paintings, I have to give him his props - between this film, "Basquiat," and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," - dude makes some really beautiful and affecting movies.
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Exnhihil, I saw Before Night Falls when it came out at a film festival. Good story (my family is cuban).
Anti-Matter Eater Lad, I loved Inception. I have to see it again but I love a great movie that refuses to dumb down. This is what the Matrix should've been.
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