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Talking of David Lynch reminds me of his first film Eraserhead
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« Reply #31 on: 22:59:58, 27-07-2008 » |
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# 22. Oh, Pim, those links! And all in 2007. not 2006. All this after the sheer power and majesty of Messiaen on BBC 4 a couple of hours ago.
Regarding 'I Know Where I'm Going', I knew Wendy Hiller in later years as we were due to rehearse a play which hit the deck before rehearsals even began. Subsequently, I tried to encourage her to write her autobiography but she didn't warm to the idea at all. She was so down to earth and unaffected but had an aura of contained steely confidence acquired after many years of hard work in so many distinguished productions. I last saw her at a "do" when the Globe Theatre was renamed the Gielgud Theatre and she always had a very special twinkle! In the early 70s, I met Roger Livesey at Victoria Station and we exchanged polite greetings. Half an hour later, we were still talking about his relationship with J B Priestley as Roger created several Priestley roles; 'Ever Since Paradise' among them; such an elegant presence; his charm was a natural part of the man. He was married to Ursula Jeans and they were fine partners, on and off stage. At this time, his face was heavily lined and reminded me of W H Auden. He died in 1976.
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One of the more recent films, I want to see(have it on DVD), is 'The Other Bolyne Girl'. Hopefully be seeing it soon.
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« Reply #33 on: 14:56:47, 28-07-2008 » |
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High humidity, again, in York today. I've opted to watch "Green for Danger" on Film 4 at 15.00 hrs; haven't seen it for yonks. The remarkable and droll Alastair Sim plays an incorrigibly incompetent police inspector. "I'm from Scotland Yard. Sickening isn't it?" - all on a rising inflection on which Sim was a master.
I worked with him on a play which bombed in 1972; indifferent notices and we opened during the first miners strike of that era. He knew that I was a keen cinemagoer and, as Naomi (his wife) didn't accompany him on the Brighton/Newcastle pre-London tour, he used to corner me in the wings, each night, "What are we going to see tomorrow, then?" and I'd mention some "permissive" film at the Tyne Film Theatre which he would hate. "Mysteries of the Organism" (I think). "What d'y mean, Stanley? WHAT D'Y MEAN?" in mock outrage. Within 15 minutes he was muttering sotto voce, "Who took me to this boring film?" An outrageous anecdote about "Nicholas & Alexander" (1971)must also wait. However, we always ended with early supper at the Turk's Head, before he took a pre-performance nap.
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« Reply #34 on: 17:28:05, 28-07-2008 » |
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A perfect little film Stanley. For me it brings back earliest childhood memories of V2s and bombsites with buddlela. Another small-scale faultless film "In the Heat of the Night" Poitier, Steiger and Warren Oaks. I just about know the script.... ''I've got the motive which is money and I've got the body which is dead!'' Wonderful. A more recent film, which I've watched two or three times already, is "Crash"- the Paul Haggis not the Cronenberg- a very fine ensemble piece which I find very moving.
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« Reply #35 on: 18:52:14, 28-07-2008 » |
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Just a few that occur to me that are maybe a bit off the wall....
Mean Streets. Early Scorsese with De Niro and Keitel obvious stars in the making.
Diner. Ensemble cast that went on to have notable careers.
Nashville. Almost anything by Robert Altman.
Bad Day at Black Rock. Spencer Tracy showing what a film star is.
Touch of Evil. Orson Welles at his most perverse.
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« Reply #36 on: 18:59:45, 28-07-2008 » |
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Just come to mind some Oz faves:
Walkabout with Jenny Aguter and
Priscilla Queen of the Desert with Terence Stamp (love it!)
The Piano
Muriel's Wedding (that's a funny film)
Edit: One I had forgotten NZ not Oz (but I think The Piano was NZ in fact)
Heavenly Creatures with Kate Winslet in big pants, very Lesbian overtures. Won Awards I recall. An unsettling film
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# 34 Snap, Ted. I, too, had similar memories of doodlebugs and even 'nitrous oxide' at the dentist! More adolescence than childhood in my case. Alastair Sim's physical manoeuvres to dodge the impact of the bombs was as witty as his mobile features. A generous, complex man; he could also be scary in seconds. A foolish Royal Court Theatre director asked him to give a phrase 'more expression'. We all froze, in rehearsal. A subdued but seething Alastair responded; "I have more than 200 expressions. Which one do you want?"  |
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« Reply #38 on: 20:17:43, 28-07-2008 » |
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Rififi. Long time no speak. Even in French.
White Heat. Cagney, top of the world ma.
This Is Spinal Tap. I worked with bands like that.
Get Carter. Not the remake stupid. How to make Tyneside iconic. Roy Budd.
If... I dearly wanted to do that to my headmaster and I only went to a grammar school.
Never did get a recording of Missa Lumba.
Blow Up. Antonioni never did get swinging London. Ricky Tick club, stroll on Jeff.
Key Largo. Well, Casablanca's too obvious. Humphrey Bogart shows what it means to be
a film star.
Prime Cut. Hackman and Marvin. Not a film for vegetarians or sausage lovers.
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« Reply #39 on: 20:50:50, 28-07-2008 » |
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Casablanca too obvious Bobby Z with dialogue like this?
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"We'll always have Paris."
Maybe it's a girlie thing?
Anyone seen Bogart's "In a Lonely Place" - real film noir. I love Bogart.
No-one has mentioned James Stewart yet.
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« Reply #40 on: 22:37:33, 28-07-2008 » |
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"Casablanca" (1942) "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'. "Round up the usual suspects" and "The problems of three little people doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
Aficionados of the film should read 'Round Up The Usual Suspects' (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1993) by Aljean Harmetz. The production was surrounded in chaos and Bogart was permanently sullen in the midst of marital upheaval. Ingrid Bergman confirmed this in her John Player Lecture at the NFT (1973 ish) and when she queried the plot line, daily, she was fobbed off with a more expensive set of costume designs. Nobody realised that they had a real classic for posterity when the film was first released. I recall seeing it again at a subsequent re-release, circa 1955, when it was on the lower half of a double bill with 'Dial M For Murder'. Frequent TV outings confirmed its status.
"In A Lonely Place" (1950) - I endorse your enthusiasm all the way, Anty. Also any film with Bogie as detective Philip Marlowe.
James Stewart. One of life's pleasures has been taking youngsters to their first production of "Hamlet"; or seeing James Stewart in "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) which used to appear, regularly, on the Classic Cinema circuit in London. So, too, did "Destry Rides Again" (1939) and what a partnership he enjoyed with Marlene Dietrich - to say the least! I enjoyed but was never overly keen on "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946); another film which had a tepid reception on its first release but TV hugely boosted its popularity. Jimmy Stewart went on to make"The Glenn Miller Story" (1954) - perhaps one of the last films to draw huge queues, all day, in an age of continuous performances. I also admired his stature in "Rope", directed by Hitchcock in 10 minute 'takes', but the film didn't find an audience until the same plot was filmed as "Compulsion" (1957) with Orson Welles dominating the screen as Clarence Darrow. Stewart came to London to play "Harvey" at the Price of Wales Theatre - late 60s - and the gangly, good-guy, we'd enjoyed for so long on the silver screen also knew how to hold the stage. A great star.
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« Reply #41 on: 22:51:26, 28-07-2008 » |
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Another Bogart film i liked was The Big Sleep - really complicated plot which could not really follow even after seeing few times but what atmosphere and interaction with Lauren Bacall and quite a few others
To Stanley - i remember in my distant youth seeing Mysteries of the Orgasm - wow what a letdown after all the blatant publicity and just waiting for something to happen but never did......
To BobbyZ - thought Blow Up was totally cool - still do - pretentious yes but great mood film with no plot!!
puts me in mind with similar film of same era namely Performance
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« Reply #42 on: 22:56:23, 28-07-2008 » |
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James Stewart "It's a wonderful Life" was pretty schmaltzy, how about "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. Oh, again schmalz par excellence but Cary Grant as Dudley the Angel was divine!
In fact, wonder why Cary Grant has not featured before on this thead?
Have we mentioned 8 and a Half or Cul-de-Sac or Donald Pleasance?
Oops, tipping down again, time to battern the hatches and unplug the electrics. Sleep well all.
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Another Bogart film i liked was The Big Sleep - really complicated plot which could not really follow even after seeing few times but what atmosphere and interaction with Lauren Bacall and quite a few others
Brilliant film, one of my all time faves. I seem to remember that this was the film where Howard Hawks (director) actually rang Raymond Chandler to ask him to explain one of the deaths (the Sternwoods' chauffeur Owen Taylor) and Chandler replied that he didn't know what had happened either. It doesn't stick to the book at the end - Lauren Bacall has to end up as a "good guy" - but who cares? |
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« Reply #44 on: 00:27:02, 29-07-2008 » |
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High humidity, again, in York today. I've opted to watch "Green for Danger" on Film 4 at 15.00 hrs; haven't seen it for yonks. The remarkable and droll Alastair Sim plays an incorrigibly incompetent police inspector. "I'm from Scotland Yard. Sickening isn't it?" - all on a rising inflection on which Sim was a master.
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I've saw W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism a long time ago but can remember almost nothing about it. Haven't seen Nicholas and Alexandra (  ) though, or if I have, it's left even less of an impression on me. |
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