I don't think he hated America or Americans. Criticising certain aspects of a culture doesn't imply any dislike of the people of that country at all.mrsl wrote:I made the comment; 'If he hated America and Americans so much, why didn't he go back to Europe and make his movies after the war had ended?'
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- June 1st, 2007, 10:18 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Douglas Sirk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11072
- June 1st, 2007, 9:54 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Douglas Sirk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11072
- May 31st, 2007, 9:00 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Douglas Sirk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11072
I love drama, but also like it tempered with a little realism, I don't want any realism in my movies! Realism is for documentaries, or reality TV, or real life (which I try to avoid). Movies are art, and realism is the death of art. I want imagination. I want my soul stirred. I want fun. I want vis...
- May 31st, 2007, 8:54 pm
- Forum: Action and Adventure
- Topic: Favorite Swashbuckler!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16297
- May 31st, 2007, 8:52 pm
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: Clara Bow in Hoop-La (1933)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3112
- May 31st, 2007, 10:57 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: Clara Bow in Hoop-La (1933)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3112
Clara Bow in Hoop-La (1933)
The secret to enjoying Clara Bow’s last movie, <i>Hoop-La</i>, is not to expect anything as spectacular and outrageous as Call Her Savage. Made in 1933, <i>Hoop-La</i> is a more routine kind of movie. A young man joins his father’s travelling carnival. Dad decides he’d better clean up his act so as ...
- May 31st, 2007, 9:57 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Douglas Sirk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11072
- May 31st, 2007, 9:35 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Douglas Sirk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11072
- May 30th, 2007, 4:20 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Douglas Sirk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11072
Douglas Sirk
My current obsession is Douglas Sirk. After Written on the Wind and All That Heavens Allows I'm js blown away by his film-making. Savagely satirical, delightfully ironic, wonderfully romantic, splendidly camp, fascinatingly arty, gloriously trashy, his movies are all this and more. Who else loves Do...
- May 30th, 2007, 4:15 pm
- Forum: Action and Adventure
- Topic: Favorite Swashbuckler!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16297
Douglas Fairbanks, hands down. Absolutely! If I had to pick a favourite I'd be torn between The Thief of Bagdad (not only a great swashbuckler, but gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous) or The Gaucho - a bizarre but wonderfully entertaining and rather sexy movie with a cameo by Mary Pickford as the Vigin Mar...
- May 29th, 2007, 5:07 pm
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: The Bribe (1949)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2828
Re: The Bribe (1949)
That's something that always impresses me in an actor - giving it everything you've got even when the movie really isn't worth it.klondike wrote:The man gave so much more than this meager script called for, i
- May 29th, 2007, 2:02 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Edward G. Robinson
- Replies: 65
- Views: 28928
I think he was a character actor at heart, and relished the greater depth such parts gave him. That's why he was so interesting. Being so unglamorous he should have been simply a charactor actor, but even though he was not the kind of actor who was going to land roles as a romantic lead he still ma...
- May 29th, 2007, 12:23 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Edward G. Robinson
- Replies: 65
- Views: 28928
Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson had to have been noe of the greatest, and also one of the most versatile, of all Hollywood actors. Does anyone else think this? Do you have a favourite Eddie G. movie?
- May 29th, 2007, 3:45 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: "Call Her Savage" (1932)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14199
Re: Call Her Savage
I saw Call Her Savage years ago at a revival cinema. I seem to recall a risque scene with Ms. Bow and a bullwhip. Does this ring a bell? Is it my vivid imagination running wild again? And when questioned as to why she's whipping that man, she replies that she's practising in case she gets married.
- May 27th, 2007, 1:45 pm
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: The Bribe (1949)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2828
The Bribe (1949)
<i>The Bribe</i>, a 1949 noir-influenced crime movie directed by Robert Z. Leonard, is a movie that has a fairly poor reputation. I think it’s actually rather good. Robert Taylor is a federal agent tracking gunrunners somewhere in the Caribbean who finds himself tempted by corruption. It boasts a fa...