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by MikeBSG
February 15th, 2014, 9:49 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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On Wednesday, I watched 'Against All Flags" (1952) directed by George Sherman. It is a very enjoyable swashbuckler. It started with Errol Flynn being flogged, only to quickly assure us that this was necessary so he could go undercover among the pirates. I began to fear that this would turn out ...
by MikeBSG
February 10th, 2014, 9:11 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766868

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Regarding the movie version of "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" I heard that the Teamsters who worked on the movie had a T-shirt made for themselves.

The front of the T-Shirt said "What's the Worst That Could Happen?"

The back of the T-shirt said "A sequel."
by MikeBSG
February 10th, 2014, 8:59 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766868

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On Saturday, I watched "In Which We Serve" (1942) directed by Noel Coward and David Lean. It took me a while to get into the movie, and I never did warm up to Coward's character, but ultimately I'd say "In Which We Serve" deserves its reputation. I really liked John Mills, and th...
by MikeBSG
February 10th, 2014, 8:56 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766868

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Wow, I think this is the first time in my life I've encountered other people who like the Dortmunder novels.

"Jimmy the Kid," the third novel in the series, has a lot of fun with crime movies.
by MikeBSG
February 10th, 2014, 8:53 am
Forum: Foreign Films
Topic: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
Replies: 610
Views: 310061

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I really like Jiri Menzel, whose career extends far beyond "Closely Watched Trains." There is "Larks on a String," made at the end of the Sixties with some of the same people as "Trains." It was 'banned forever" after the crushing of the Prague Spring. From the Eig...
by MikeBSG
February 6th, 2014, 11:23 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766868

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Glad to see how people here liked "Hugo." I remember when it came out and was nominated for Best Picture, and I read some actress (quoted anonymously) saying that "Hugo" shouldn't have been nominated because it was "a kid's movie." Then today, someone on Goodreads was c...
by MikeBSG
February 6th, 2014, 11:21 pm
Forum: Foreign Films
Topic: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
Replies: 610
Views: 310061

Re: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?

On Wednesday, I watched "Red Lion" (1969) directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film is set in the Meiji Restoration in 1860s Japan. Toshiro Mifune is a not-especially bright soldier who goes to his village to launch a social revolution and turn the people away from the Shogunate to the Imperia...
by MikeBSG
February 1st, 2014, 8:39 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766868

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On Thursday, I watched "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954) directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. I really enjoyed it. Admittedly, I had low expectations, having heard nothing especially good about the film. But I found it very interesting to see a "new" Humphrey Bogart film, especially on...
by MikeBSG
January 30th, 2014, 9:19 am
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Q & A For Noah Isenberg, the Biographer of Edgar G. Ulmer
Replies: 30
Views: 56679

Re: Q & A For Noah Isenberg, the Biographer of Edgar G. Ulmer

Welcome to the Oasis! I haven't seen a lot of Ulmer's work, but I have a few questions. 1) On "The Black Cat," did he get along okay with Karloff? I read the Ulmer interview with Bogdanovich, and Ulmer seemed to imply that Karloff found "The Black Cat" to be a rather ludicrous pr...
by MikeBSG
January 28th, 2014, 9:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766868

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Today I saw "Two for the Road" (1967) directed by Stanley Donnen. This was terrific. I can't believe it has taken me so long to catch up to this film. I LOVED how it skipped between different points in the characters' lifetime. Very funny and also very wise. Loved Audrey Hepburn in this on...
by MikeBSG
January 28th, 2014, 9:03 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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Views: 1766868

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I have to say that Tony Curtis "as" Cary Grant is terrific in "Some Like It Hot." As was said earlier, it is almost as if Cary himself were in the film. (I guess Billy Wilder always wanted to get Cary Grant in one of his movies, and Cary kept turning him down, particularly "...
by MikeBSG
January 24th, 2014, 5:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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Views: 1766868

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Today I watched "The Usual Suspects" (1995). Okay, I was 19 years late to this particular party. It was okay, although I think I liked the first half of the film better than the second half (when everyone was yammering about Keyser Soze, this evil superman.) The line-up scene was very good...
by MikeBSG
January 24th, 2014, 5:35 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
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When I saw "Tootsie" in Moscow in the mid-90s, I was surprised to see that they didn't do anything with the song lyrics in the middle of the film. The rest of the film had Russian looped over the American dialogue (which you could still sort of hear.)
by MikeBSG
January 18th, 2014, 4:28 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766868

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Today I watched "Easy Living" (1937) directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Preston Sturges. I had heard about this movie for years, and I have to say that it did live up to my expectations. The Automat scene is very funny. (There seemed to be a surprisingly large amount of physical co...
by MikeBSG
January 16th, 2014, 9:14 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Replies: 8122
Views: 1766868

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Today I watched "The Sunshine Boys" (1975) directed by Herbert Ross. I had never seen this before. Largely because I've never been taken with George Burns. I'd never shut off the TV because he was on, but I never sought out anything he was in. This movie really took me by surprise. I liked...