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Post by Eddie Love on Jul 24, 2010 12:34:17 GMT -5
Robert Wise's RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP is on now. Wonderful film. Burt Lancaster - dead. Clark Gable - dead. Brad Dexter - dead. Don Rickles - alive and funny (if you can find it, he gives a great interview talking about the contrasting acting advice he received from Gable and Lancaster). Yeah!! I think that's in the MR WARMTH documentary along with another anecdote with Rickles doing a hysterical Gable imitation. I'm DVR-ing RSRD along with PT-109 which comes on afterward and is a sentimental favorite of mine.
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Post by Derrick on Jul 24, 2010 17:01:21 GMT -5
As silly a Bond as Moore was, he had some great moments. I cannot bring myself to condemn him. Yeeeeeeeeeeeah, I'm starting to find myself in a place where I'm ready to condemn a little. I recently re-watched THE WILD GEESE where Moore is clearly supposed to be playing an Irishman and makes no effort whatsoever to affect an accent of any kind. We've long known he was a lazy actor, but this borders on contempt for the audience. What's odd is, if you read his -- very enjoyable -- memoir, he's very ambitious, but in ways that seem to extend to getting roles, rather than doing much with them when he has them. ( ffOLKES and THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF aside.) fFOLKS is a terrific movie that showcases Roger Moore's true acting ability as he actually acted and didn't just coast by on stupid jokes and easy charm. And I suppose that infuriates me about Roger Moore: the man has (or had) considerable acting talent when he choose to exercise it. Way too often he didn't feel like exercising it and took the lazy way out.
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Post by grubl on Jul 24, 2010 22:26:40 GMT -5
Okay, but you guys have to admit that when you were a kid watching LIVE AND LET DIE he seemed pretty fucking cool.
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Post by james on Jul 25, 2010 6:15:44 GMT -5
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Post by Eddie Love on Jul 25, 2010 9:54:52 GMT -5
Thanks for the heads up, I just set this up. I'd read that piece on their blog and was intrigued.
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Post by grubl on Jul 25, 2010 10:19:19 GMT -5
Last night, after A RAISIN IN THE SUN, TCM showed a little piece on a restored "lost" noir film, CRY DANGER, with Dick Powell. It looks great, but it's not scheduled to be shown at the moment. So, is WHEN WERE YOU BORN? going to be our group film assignment?
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Post by Eddie Love on Jul 25, 2010 10:33:49 GMT -5
So, is WHEN WERE YOU BORN? going to be our group film assignment? It does look like we have three takers?
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Post by Derrick on Jul 25, 2010 10:46:18 GMT -5
Last night, after A RAISIN IN THE SUN, TCM showed a little piece on a restored "lost" noir film, CRY DANGER, with Dick Powell. It looks great, but it's not scheduled to be shown at the moment. So, is WHEN WERE YOU BORN? going to be our group film assignment? I'm down if you are.
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Post by Eddie Love on Jul 27, 2010 17:57:35 GMT -5
I DVR'ed WHEN WERE YOU BORN?. Apartment guests permitting, hope to get to it soon. Also, on the TCM Morlocks Blog they have a post about how they're gonna show HENNESSEY with Rod Steiger later this month, a movie that never gets shown and I think may even be banned in the UK.
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Post by grubl on Jul 27, 2010 20:22:42 GMT -5
I really enjoyed WHEN WERE YOU BORN?. Anna Mae Wong carried the entire film and only did not recieve top billing due to the reflexive racsim of the time. Goofy dialogue, not too much in the way of logic or depth, but fun and quirky. I'll save specifics 'til I know the rest of you have given it a go.
Eduardo, kick those people out or explain to them that watching a film with chinese people in it should not threaten them in anyway.
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Post by Derrick on Jul 28, 2010 8:33:42 GMT -5
My DVR didn't record WHEN WERE YOU BORN? There wasn't enough room on the bloomin' thing. At the end of the week I'm going to delete a lot of this stuff on this thing.
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Post by james on Jul 28, 2010 9:14:25 GMT -5
I recorded it onto DVD-R (Derrick - that's one reason why I don't use a DVR). Now, I just have to make time to watch it.
James
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Post by james on Jul 28, 2010 14:48:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I think that's THE KENNEL MURDER CASE, which TCM shows the most often of the series, and that's what I was referring to as the insanely complex solution. And William Powell is the man. I love it when they show other films of his, besides just the Thin Man series. He's an underrated star -- a great performer. And TCM is running The Kennel Murder Case again tomorrow, at 7:15 am (est). It's part of a day of William Powell movies, which will include three of the non- Thin Man Powell/Loy films. (And if you want obscure trivia, I Love You Again at 2PM features an "outside" role for Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer during his Our Gang years. Our Gang kids rarely appeared elsewhere when they were part of that series). James
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Post by Eddie Love on Aug 2, 2010 18:31:26 GMT -5
Holy crap, Barnes & Noble had a sale on Criterion discs. Picked up Visconti's THE LEOPARD and THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE w/ Bob Mitchum -- both 50% off. Whaaaaaaaat?
Don't know how long this is on for or if it's nationwide or online.
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Post by james on Aug 2, 2010 19:22:21 GMT -5
Holy crap, Barnes & Noble had a sale on Criterion discs. Picked up Visconti's THE LEOPARD and THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE w/ Bob Mitchum -- both 50% off. Whaaaaaaaat? Don't know how long this is on for or if it's nationwide or online. It ended August 1st, I believe. I picked up Leo McCarey's Make Way For Tomorrow. James
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