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« Reply #15 on: 16:57:34, 27-07-2008 » |
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Just last night I remembered, and had a sudden twinge of nostalgia for, the movie of Die Fledermaus (Hey, Batman? watch this!) set in post-war Berlin. IMDB doesn't seem to know much about it, but I think it was the 1946 version that I remember.
Also in my "must watch" list, movies like "the Forbidden Planet" (1956) as much for an early Leslie Nielsen as the extraordinary incidental music by Louis and Bebe Barron.
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« Reply #16 on: 17:06:29, 27-07-2008 » |
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A, I don't know if it has stood the test of time, I first saw it about a year ago, it was a freebie with The Torygraph! Certainly I was entranced by it. Will have to dig it out again but cannot immediately find it.
The Telegraph had a run some time ago of giving away dvds with the paper, I have Pygmalion with Leslie Howard/Wendy Hiller, which is a delight, and also, not as not yet watched: Brighton Rock with Richard Attenborough. Intermezzo with Ingrid Bergman & Leslie Howard, MacBeth with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench and Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #17 on: 17:38:52, 27-07-2008 » |
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Have you noticed that the Daily Mail  are giving away classic films at the moment?... Emma, North and South, Bleak House . Worth buying the paper (just!!) A |
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Well, there you are.
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Antheil
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« Reply #18 on: 17:55:32, 27-07-2008 » |
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I never look at The Daily Maul but have been to their website, it seems tomorrow is Wuthering Heights. I would have liked David Copperfield and Bleak House though. It also says "If you prefer, just collect TEN of the separate tokens we will print, and send them to the address we will be publishing later in the promotion - along with a cheque for £7.99 (to cover P&P and administrative costs) - and we will send you the entire collection of DVDs" which seems good but with only 5 days left of the promotion I guess I have missed the boat :-(
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #19 on: 18:14:01, 27-07-2008 » |
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# 15 Oh. Kittybriton. The version of 'Die Fledermaus' you were trying to recall was probably "Oh Rosalinda" (1955), a Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger production, in cinemascope, with Anton Walbrook, Michael Redgrave, Anthony Quayle, Mel Ferrer and Ludmilla Tcherina - so gorgeous in the same team's "The Red Shoes" (1948), seen on BBC 2 some 8 days ago. Oh Rosalinda was set in post-war Vienna and lacked the light touch which, say, Ernst Lubitsch would have added. It failed badly at the box office. I made an off-air video recording a few years ago but didn't think it was worth transferring to DVD.
Otherwise, I am a great admirer of Powell & Pressburger's work; "The Red Shoes" (1948), "The Life & Death of Col Blimp" (1943), "The Thief of Bagdad" (1939), "A Matter of Life & Death" (1946), "49th Parallel" (1942), and two neglected treasures "The Small Back Room" (1948) & "Gone to Earth" (1950). Their version of "Tales of Hoffman" (1951) (Beecham conducting) is worth a shufti on DVD. Finally, my big soft spot goes to "I Know Where I'm Going" (1945) with Wendy Hiller & Roger Livesey. I mentioned the sheer joy of this film at TOP, in 2006, and it got a huge response from posters who even confirmed that the phone box (Isle of Mull), near the waterfall, is still there. The film is still viewed with great affection.
Worth reading, too, is Michael Powell's two vol. biographies; A Life in the Movies & Million Dollar Movies, published in the late 80s.
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« Reply #20 on: 19:25:06, 27-07-2008 » |
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And, of course, the classic "Black Narcissus" (1947).
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« Reply #21 on: 19:33:58, 27-07-2008 » |
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Oh Stanley, I LOVE "I know where I'm going". In fact, I watched it again only a few weeks ago. It often seems to get passed over when Powell/Pressburger films are mentioned, but it's a little gem. Wonderful pairing of Hillier and Livesey. I was hooked the first time I saw it.
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« Reply #23 on: 20:35:28, 27-07-2008 » |
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After "A Matter of Life and Death" my favourite is "A Canterbury Tale" I can never make up my mind if the chap playing the G.I was a G.I or an actor giving one of the best screen performances of all time.
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I've got to get down to Sidcup.
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Antheil
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« Reply #24 on: 20:42:14, 27-07-2008 » |
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Indeed, Matter of Life & Death and Black Narcissus. How about Separate Tables?
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« Reply #25 on: 21:04:03, 27-07-2008 » |
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And leaving aside the more romantic films, how about James Dean, Rebel without a Cause and East of Eden. And Marlon Brando On the Waterfront?
Plus Vertigo, The Birds and Psycho <shriek>
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« Reply #26 on: 21:21:15, 27-07-2008 » |
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Ants, but what about this?  Dark, chilling, downright nasty with a deep vein of hopelessness running through it. Betrayal, disloyalty and death. Non-romantic enough for you, Ants?  |
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Kittybriton
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« Reply #27 on: 21:23:25, 27-07-2008 » |
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Another one that I just remembered, not particularly for Danny Kaye, but rather for the snapshot performances by some of the famous names in the musical scene at the time: A Song is Born.
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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Antheil
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« Reply #28 on: 21:29:36, 27-07-2008 » |
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Mort, I thought I had mentioned Monroe and Niagara before but see I didn't. I love that, I have a rather grainy copy on video somewhere, if it wasn't that I had to get up for work in the morning .......... And we haven't mentioned David Lynch (Blue Velvet et al) or Peter Greenaway (The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover) - got that on video as well! Or The Draughtsman's Contract. And I said I don't watch films  Edit: It's the music with Peter Greenaway as well. |
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« Reply #29 on: 21:47:52, 27-07-2008 » |
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Talking of David Lynch reminds me of his first film Eraserhead
Did not have a clue what the film was supposed to be about but didnt matter because the weird atmosphere throughout the whole film-after this was keen to see most of his films but rather variable - thought Blue Velvet for example was rather over hyped and rather pretentious - nevertheless an interesting film director
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