Is it bad that I read this and started thinking about The Outlaw in 3D?jondaris wrote:It seems they were upset because they weren't showing the movie in widescreen.
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- January 19th, 2008, 5:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Annoying people at the movies
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5126
Re: Annoying people at the movies
Yeah, I've seen this one and while I'm hardly the target audience I thought it was an absolute gem. Along with Flesh and the Devil and Queen Christina, I think it's her best work. In fact in a book I'm writing on the IMDb Top 250, I use it as a huge contrast to Gone with the Wind. The relevant parag...
- January 19th, 2008, 5:23 pm
- Forum: Comedies
- Topic: Silent Laughs: Chaplin, Keaton or Lloyd?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 18194
And after talking about differences between English and American humour in a different thread, I should add that I'm a huge fan of American slapstick. Silent humour really transcended any difference, and the greats were Americans (or like Stan Laurel, appeared to be). Who else was there in silent co...
- January 19th, 2008, 5:03 pm
- Forum: Comedies
- Topic: Tell me the miracle???!!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5132
OK, this thread really surprised me... As I travel through cinema, it became quickly obvious that English humour and American humour have always been completely different. That's come up here on a few threads. Put simply, Brits really don't find many American movies funny and Americans don't find ma...
- January 10th, 2008, 12:46 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: He Was Her Man (1934)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4321
- January 6th, 2008, 8:53 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: The Paradine Case (1947)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5042
I may be bucking the consensus here, but I enjoyed The Paradine Case very much. While it's hardly Hitch's best, it was at least a few times better than his next one, Rope. In fact with the possible exception of The Skin Game, Rope is my least favourite Hitch out of the 56 I've seen thus far. I'm onl...
- January 5th, 2008, 12:54 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: Mad Love (1935)/The Beast With Five Fingers (1948)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 32802
In my humble opinion, Peter Lorre is one of the most underrated actors of the whole of the last century. I read his roles a little differently each time I see them, because I catch little nuances that I'd never caught before. That works whether the roles be small ones in films like The Maltese Falco...
- January 5th, 2008, 12:20 pm
- Forum: Comedies
- Topic: Three Greatest American Talkie comedies
- Replies: 46
- Views: 20591
- January 5th, 2008, 12:03 pm
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: The Spiral Staircase (1945)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2667
- January 5th, 2008, 11:59 am
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: Doorway to Hell (1930)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3730
I thought The Doorway to Hell was a great movie and to me it is for Cagney what Little Caesar was for Edward G Robinson. It feels more right as a companion than The Public Enemy does, and for this reason: In each, the future gangster star starts out as a nobody, both as an actor and especially as a ...
- January 5th, 2008, 11:43 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: A Lady Of Chance (1928)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2473
Yeah, there were a lot of surprises in this one. Here's what I wrote after seeing it last July: Here's Norma Shearer's last silent film, not that it ended up that way. She's Dolly Morgan, aka Angel Face, a con artist who gets recognised pulling scams in a hotel by a couple of crooks who want her to ...
- January 5th, 2008, 11:38 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: "The Stolen Jools" (1931)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2187
- January 5th, 2008, 11:31 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: The Paradine Case (1947)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5042
- January 5th, 2008, 11:29 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: something I wish TCM would do more of...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1945
I couldn't agree more, as long as they pick the right guests so that there's plenty of the insightful content that you talk of but it doesn't just become a spot for people to boast about how they knew someone. I've thoroughly enjoyed a few of the guests that TCM has hosted, both on themed series and...
- December 27th, 2007, 11:13 pm
- Forum: Comedies
- Topic: Three Greatest American Talkie comedies
- Replies: 46
- Views: 20591
Wow, I wasn't expecting a Hulot war! I should add that I'm new to Jacques Tati. I've seen precisely one, which may well not be his best, but I loved it. To my English eyes, he's just like Mr Bean except forty years earlier. I was also amazed not just by what he did as an actor in Mr Hulot's Holiday ...