The Silver Screen Oasis

Hibi wrote: ↑May 16th, 2023, 4:03 pm

BagelOnAPlate wrote: ↑April 30th, 2023, 11:55 am

Fedya wrote: ↑April 29th, 2023, 11:40 am

Surprisingly, Hepburn isn't wearing Givenchy in Green Mansions.

I wonder how this costume would have looked if it had been designed by Givenchy.

But someone did design it. Dorothy Jeakins.

Swithin wrote: ↑May 5th, 2023, 9:43 pm By coincidence, I just watched two movies featuring Nick and Nora Charles -- NOT!

Star of Midnight (1935)
A year after making The Thin Man, William Powell starred as a hard-drinking playboy/detective who gets roped into trying to solve a murder that took place in his apartment. Ginger Rogers (between Roberta and Top Hat) stars as the woman who has loved him since she was a little girl. Ginger helps him with the case. Gene Lockhart is Powell's valet. There are other characters who flesh out this thin and at times confusing plot. J. Farrell McDonald is the best of the bunch, as Police Inspector Doremus, a name surely stolen (perhaps an homage) to the exasperated coroner of the Philo Vance stories (of which this is not one). Star of Midnight is light fun, but unlike The Thin Man, the supporting characters are not very well drawn.


William Powell, Ginger Rogers

Stamboul Quest (1934) is unusual in that the story is about espionage and counter espionage (and perhaps counter counter espionage) among the Germans during World War I, at a time before America entered the war. Myrna Loy plays a German spy, sent by her spy boss (Lionel Atwill) to find out whether the head of the Turkish forces (very well played by C. Henry Gordon) is a double agent, spying for the British. The Dardanelles are involved, and military secrets. Myrna's life and mission are complicated by the fact that George Brent, an American studying medicine in Germany, is accidentally arrested in a dentist's office, during the ambush of Leo G. Carroll, who is also a double agent. Rudolph Amendt (who would play the mad doctor in She Demons nearly 25 years later) has a small role. There are nuns in this movie, and a convent, at the opening and closing. Myrna, having outed Mata Hari as a double agent, herself falls in love, jeopardizing her work. There is some very clever dialogue in this film, as well as a little bit of well placed humour, and a great scene in which C. Henry Gordon writes secrets in invisible ink on Myrna Loy's naked back.

(I've just read on Wikipedia that Loy's character -- Fraulein Doktor -- was based on a real person!)


George Brent, Myrna Loy, C. Henry Gordon

CinemaInternational wrote: ↑April 26th, 2023, 7:58 am Some more things seen recently....





Australia (2008) contains the paradox of almost all films directed by Baz Luhrmann; it starts in a choppy, aggressive, rather goofy style, and then removes its brittle shell to reveal something far more deep and emotional underneath. This extremely long (165 minutes) and astoundingly expensive ($130 million) film found few takers in 2008, but if you get past those early passages (which do contain a very misguided brief moment of kangaroo poaching), you end up with something that feels floridly rich, like a Golden Age Hollywood melodrama. The episodic story finds Nicole Kidman as an English woman who comes to Australia in 1939 on reports that her estranged husband, who lives there, has been stepping out on her. She arrives to find out that he has been murdered, and that she now owns his ramshackle property much coveted by her
ality of some in the Old West, but the sequence is formless and stops the film dead cold. Still, much of the rest is quite powerful, and Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker and Dolores Del Rio stand out in the ensemble cast. Its not perfect, but it is worth a look.

ziggy6708a wrote: ↑April 8th, 2023, 11:37 pm

LawrenceA wrote: ↑April 7th, 2023, 12:54 pm Okay, I'm done.

I thought it just meant he was done for THAT day (?)

dianedebuda wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 8:41 am

TikiSoo wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 6:27 amI too thought he had meant he was "done for the day" after completely watching all those silent shorts.

I thought the same. Hope we're right.

TikiSoo wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 6:27 amI didn't see any detrimental comment towards Lawrence except the "why not go outside?" comment. While that was just a little challenging, it doesn't fall into "bullying/harassment", does it?

Actually I thought it was an attempt at a humor about the amazing amount of time spent finding the shorts, creating a logical sequence plan to see them, then actually view each AND post his individual evaluations here. It has been a fun journey to share.

Intrepid37 wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 2:46 pm

laffite wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 1:22 pm

Intrepid37 wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 12:24 pm

No. I don't get that feeling at all.

That's what he meant. Leaving the Board. I have not communicated with him but he has threatened this before.

Are you saying he's a drama queen? Threatens to quit repeatedly?

That seems like odd behavior for an adult.

LostHorizons wrote: ↑May 18th, 2023, 8:43 am

dianedebuda wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 8:41 am

TikiSoo wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 6:27 amI too thought he had meant he was "done for the day" after completely watching all those silent shorts.

I thought the same. Hope we're right.

TikiSoo wrote: ↑April 9th, 2023, 6:27 amI didn't see any detrimental comment towards Lawrence except the "why not go outside?" comment. While that was just a little challenging, it doesn't fall into "bullying/harassment", does it?

Actually I thought it was an attempt at a humor about the amazing amount of time spent finding the shorts, creating a logical sequence plan to see them, then actually view each AND post his individual evaluations here. It has been a fun journey to share.

No, it was clearly a catty and bitter attempt at tearing Larry down from Sepia as he often did on the old forums. I doubt Larry is gone for good and he might even be reading this. He claimed he deleted his account on Topbilled’s forum and never looked back so I could imagine him trying to do the same here but it is unlikely he isn’t still reading at least. He knows he is missed here.

Sepiatone wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 11:31 am Man. Had to do some searching to find which quip Intrepid was referring to.

And sure. It was pretty mild. And never intended to seriously offend. He just made it sound that he had sequestered himself indoors for hours to watch all that footage I couldn't resist the rib. All meant with a wink and a nudge. Just as in the other forum Intrepid, I made a somewhat sardonic reference to your "Jukebox" postings as being from the "Land of Bazooka Joe!" Just having fun.

Intrepid37 wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 10:41 am Sepiatone's quip seemed pretty mild to me.

I still can't quite believe that Lawrence took that so badly that he hasn't posted since. Weird.

Allhallowsday wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 2:13 pm Did anyone look at last week's SILENT SUNDAY NIGHT ? The film was a restored film that had been considered lost, I think the year was 1923 perhaps 1922. I am fairly certain that WILLIAM POWELL had a very early part in the film as a villain. Also making an appearance was HARPO MARX! The principals were actors whose names I was not familiar with... I poked around IMDB but found nothing.

Swithin wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 2:21 pm

Intrepid37 wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 10:41 am Sepiatone's quip seemed pretty mild to me.

I still can't quite believe that Lawrence took that so badly that he hasn't posted since. Weird.

I was able to check Lawrence's posts. He said "Okay, I'm done" on April 7. He posted four times on April 12.

search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&author_id=349014

There are a lot of new names around here, maybe he's one of them.