. By the time I was a teenager, I fell in love with the movies of the 1970s (the writing, the acting, the overall aesthetic for lack of a better word.) I also loved the the 1930s and 1940s as well as the 1960s (so many fun movies from that decade). I also loved silent movies. But the American movie...

I know the feeling of being a jinx. For a while, I had the habit of thinking of something relating to a few people and then found out they had died. JSuch was the case with Sidney Lumet, Peter Falk, Marvin Hamlisch, Celeste Holm, and a few others.... in the .00000001 in eighty-thousandgooglebillion...

posted because, WHY NOT?

For a while I wondered if somehow I had something to do with Ann Reinking's death. I watched Annie and then the next day I learned that she died. I've had that happen too. Also there was one time not too long ago where I was driving and THE PRETENDERS were playing on three different SIRIUS stations...

SEVEN????
Lord have mercy.

IN RE: FILMS OF THE 1970'S V. FILMS OF THE 1980S I was born in 1978 and came of age in the 80's and 90's, where i went to the movies verrrry regularly. when i became a classic movie fan, I SPECIFICALLY BYPASSED FILMS OF THE 1970S and instead gravitated towards the 30s and 40s and 50s... it wasn't un...

it's been long enough since RYAN O'NEAL passed (two weeks?), I'll post this now:

this mentioning of WILLIAM HURT has reminded me of an amusing anecdote from my childhood in NORTH CAROLINA. In the year 1985, I would have been about 8 years old, and I was a child with who was VERY VERY VERY INTO SPOOKY STUFF[ /b], especially CAMPY SPOOKY STUFF and when I saw the title and newspap...

kingrat wrote: ↑December 20th, 2023, 9:05 pm

Lorna wrote: ↑December 20th, 2023, 3:35 pm personally, I think CRONENBERG or TERRY GILLIAM would've been the best fits for the material,

Dude, I'm holdin' out for Chantal Akerman!

it could've definitely used a feminine perspective.
I wonder if LINA WERTMULLER was one of the 27 directors approached.
PROBABLY NOT LENI REIFENSTAHL THO

PAULINE KAEL’a review of “altered states” is so spot on that I’m going to try reading it alloud into my phone, and hopefully voice transcriber will not booger it up too horribly. (With some edits) “ an aggressively silly head-horror movie, the result of the misalliance of two wildly, different hype...

personally, I think CRONENBERG or TERRY GILLIAM would've been the best fits for the material,

A few last words on Altered States...One of Cheyefsky's best friends was Bob Fosse. (Which does beg the question why Fosse didn't end up directing this when Arthur Penn bailed, and over 25 other directors said no) . Two years after his death, Star 80 ended up being dedicated to Cheyefsky. I underst...

OUT OF OF THOSE NOMINEES "FAME" IS THE ONE THAT WON????!!!!!!

???!!!!

Wow. Cocaine was nuts in the late 70's/early 80s.

Have you seen BODY HEAT (1981) with KATHLEEN TURNER ? yes, only within the last two years or so, I want to say it was one of the last films I reviewed on YE OLDE MESSAGEBOARDES. I liked it- it was like a sexy version of THE FILE ON THELMA JORDON , only with nudity and TWO HIGHLY COMPETENT LEADS ins...

For a time in the 1980s William Hurt was considered one of the best, possibly even the best, actor working in film. He had a run of good films. I remember, quite well. That's why I was surprised that when he died, it made barely a blip in the news. I think it occurred while YE OLDE MESSAGEBOARDS we...