Isin’t there like 4 sequels to The Thin Man, I think I saw one of them.
Seen so many movies on TCM latley, watched four the other day when they were doing Hitchcock night. And tonight a cool Samuel Fuller double, that guy was a talented SOB at the beginning of his career, albeit raw talent.
Woow, got a decent paycheck. I just ordered some movies:
- In This Our Life - John Huston picture with Bette Davis.
- The Great Lie - Mary Astor and Bette Davis.
- A Letter To Three Wives - Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
- Anna Christie - Clarence Brown; Greta Garbo.
- To Have And Have Not - Hawks; Bogie and Bacall.
Oh, yeah. I’m all set for the month!
[quote=“F.W.”]
Does anyone else find that Bio has a very feminin tone?
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Hey! I’m a bad motherfucker! How dare you! I’m a Tarantino person for christ sake, and I love zombie pictures - well the Romero/Fulci. It’s not my fault I can’t resist great actresses who were born a few years before my time.
[quote=“Lt. BioBasterd”]
Hey! I’m a bad motherfucker! How dare you! I’m a Tarantino person for christ sake, and I love zombie pictures - well the Romero/Fulci. It’s not my fault I can’t resist great actresses who were born a few years before my time.
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;D
I don’t know if anyone’s seen William Wyler’s “The Children’s Hour” with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley McLaine (which is available for full view at youtube with great quality), I saw it for the first time today and it is one of the best dramatic films I have ever seen. It all starts with a snotty girl who wants to leave a small board school that is owned and taught by McLaine and Hepburn, and she (the girl) starts a nasty rumor that circulates around town and then gets national attention. This lie ultimately tarnishes their personal lifes and business. Then a bomb is dropped in one of the scenes and it just changes everything! If you haven’t seen it, you really should. The performances are bar none some of the best ever. I especially liked Audrey Hepburn, if anything Penelope Cruz reminded me so much of her, great talent.
Stella Dallas
I bought this film a few weeks ago and saw it last night. I really loved. I really haven’t seen many Barbara Stanwyck films except for this one and Double Indemnity. The film was superbly acted and you just can’t help but to feel so full of joy when Stella walks down the rainy street after watching her daughter marry. The film above all is about sacrifice and love.
Barbara Stanwyck seems to be one of those actresses that just got lost in the passage of time. Kind of like Susan Hayward. They were big huge stars back in the day but now the only ones people seem to remember are Bette Davis Katherine Hepburn and a few others
Well, if anyone likes movies I think they’ll come across her great work sooner or later. Bette Davis is really the best I’ve ever seen, film after film after doing Of Human Bondage she made great movies - even in her late age she did Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte and Baby Jane - it’s a rare career to have it so good at that age and she never quit. She was a great worker, disciplined. A great actress and above all she never quit until she died. And beyond that she did theatre and radio plays with LUX theatre. There’s never been anyone like her.
[quote=“Lt. BioBasterd”]
Well, if anyone likes movies I think they’ll come across her great work sooner or later. Bette Davis is really the best I’ve ever seen, film after film after doing Of Human Bondage she made great movies - even in her late age she did Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte and Baby Jane - it’s a rare career to have it so good at that age and she never quit. She was a great worker, disciplined. A great actress and above all she never quit until she died. And beyond that she did theatre and radio plays with LUX theatre. There’s never been anyone like her.
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Speaking of Bette Davis I just finished Dark Victory. Great read. That woman lived a fucking life to make a movie about. She was such a character.
That line on the poster fucking rocks: “Sure I Like A Good Time” That alone would make me check the movie out.
[quote=“Ordell Rodriguez”]
Speaking of Bette Davis I just finished Dark Victory. Great read. That woman lived a fucking life to make a movie about. She was such a character.
That line on the poster fucking rocks: “Sure I Like A Good Time” That alone would make me check the movie out.
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It’s nothing like Annie Oakley, if that’s what you’re thinking. Think more along the lines of “The Old Maid” or even “Mildred Pierce” in a way. There are no guns - nothing of that sort. Just a story about a young naive woman who marries a wealthy man and changes after she has her daughter. It’s a fine damn picture, just how I like them, really.
It would be a bit of a travesty to make a biopic on Bette. One rule she held after in her career was that no one could play her. If you look at “Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte” her stand in that was needed for the opening was fired, and Bette played a 19 year old at the age of 58. Really, really.
[quote=“Lt. BioBasterd”]
It’s nothing like Annie Oakley, if that’s what you’re thinking. Think more along the lines of “The Old Maid” or even “Mildred Pierce” in a way. There are no guns - nothing of that sort. Just a story about a young naive woman who marries a wealthy man and changes after she has her daughter. It’s a fine damn picture, just how I like them, really.
It would be a bit of a travesty to make a biopic on Bette. One rule she held after in her career was that no one could play her. If you look at “Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte” her stand in that was needed for the opening was fired, and Bette played a 19 year old at the age of 58. Really, really.
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Yeah I looked the flick up after seeing the poster. Still looks like a damn fine picture, guns or not.
Why would it be a travesty? I wouldn’t necessarily champion it but it was a life.
[quote=“Ordell Rodriguez”]
Yeah I looked the flick up after seeing the poster. Still looks like a damn fine picture, guns or not.
Why would it be a travesty? I wouldn’t necessarily champion it but it was a life.
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Bette Davis would hate the idea. Yes she’s dead - but still.
[quote=“Lt. BioBasterd”]
Bette Davis would hate the idea. Yes she’s dead - but still.
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It would be a travesty because a dead person wouldn’t like the idea. Perfectly reasonable to me. Whatever, if they put it out, I’d be there opening day.
Movies that I’ve watched on the channel recently (And loved):
A Patch of Blue
Birdman of Alcatraz
Autumn Leaves
Goodbye Mr. Chips (To my great surprise)
Of Mice and Men (Chaney Jr was an underused talent)
Zulu
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Set-Up (I actually wouldn’t have mind seeing an entire movie that was set in the locker-room. The “Assembly line” of boxers was great stuff)
Gonna check out Major Dundee tonight. The last I’ve yet to see of the “Prime” Peckinpah movies.
Just re-watched Hell is For Heroes, The Americanization of Emily, &
Dead Heat on A Merry-Go-Round today on TCM.
Love all three of these films. I was quite glad that they chose to focus on Jim Coburn this tuesday.
I saw The Westerner for the very first time and loved. Walter Brennan was so great, ha! That showdown in the end was so surreal.
[quote=“Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth”]
Just re-watched Hell is For Heroes, The Americanization of Emily, &
Dead Heat on A Merry-Go-Round today on TCM.
Love all three of these films. I was quite glad that they chose to focus on Jim Coburn this tuesday.
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Hey who are you?
Do you really like Bette Davis?
[quote=“Lt. BioBasterd”]
Hey who are you?
Do you really like Bette Davis?
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'Tis I. The one formerly known as, Chad Cuntington Baxter!
You people also once knew me by the monikers of;
Spiros, Dwight_McCarthy, & even the tragically
misspelled hattori_honzo…
[quote=“Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth”]
'Tis I. The one formerly known as, Chad Cuntington Baxter!
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?????Who?
Are you calling Bette a hoe in that banner?